This book comprises lectures Nari K. Rustomji delivered in the Verrier Elwin Memorial Lectures Series in 1986 at NEHU, Shillong. These lectures are i) The Most Inspired Chronicler of India's Tribal People, ii) These Riches of the Spirit are their Power, iii) He has always been to me what Mentor was to Telemachus, and iv) One of the greatest Romantics of Anthropology.
 
A recall of the life of Verrier Elwin by a friend, the book is recommended to students of history, anthropology, and tribal culture.