The classic journey-adventures of the past, from [Frederick] Marryat and [Walter] Scott downwards, have most of them been journeys of body and spirit together: the most stringent and compelling accidents have their full effect when we can see how they have changed the protagonist other than by merely breaking his head. The divagating and dangerous journey taken [in Tulku] by Theodore Tewker into Tibet is, to outward appearance, a flight; surviving a Boxer raid on his father's mission in China, the boy attaches himself to chance-met travellers without any particular plan or hope. It is not for many months that he is able to admit that there was a pattern, mysterious and inexplicable, in his journeying…. [Safely] back in England, he admitted to himself that if "the foundations which Father had given him had been shaken", he had "discovered other foundations beneath, broader and more enduring", not by...