1974 First Paperback Edition A remarkable experience, a jarring and total immersion into a holy alien, but irresistibly fascinating sensibility. This is no ethnology text with charts and footnotes, but the happenings themselves told with such immediacy, honesty and clarity that the reader becomes a part of them sharing Castanas, exultations and bafflement and terrors traveling with him terribly alone that road that must be taken to become a man of knowledge