 Pallis published three books over a span of almost forty years.His first, "Peaks and Lamas" (1939), mentioned previously, tells the story “of how access was gained, across the varying episodes of Himalayan travel, to a traditional world, still complete and vigorous, that of Buddhism in its Tibetan branch”.This was followed by "The Way and the Mountain" (1960) and by "A Buddhist Spectrum" (1980), both collections of essays that attempt to deal “with a number of Buddhist themes of prime importance in such a fashion as to make up .