Three years in Tibet

Ekai Kawaguchi

Madras, The Theosophist Office, Benares and London, 1909.

Quarto. Frontis, xv, 719 p. 10 plates. (one folding), map, 63 illustrations.  Modern gray cloth, black leather spine label, new end papers. Minor tanning to pages, a few nicks to first few leaves, scattered pencil marginalia, map in rear tear along most of fold.

Ekai Kawaguchi was the first recorded Japanese citizen to travel to both Nepal and Tibet. A classic work as it portrays the social, religious and political situation in India, Nepal and Tibet at the turn of the century. Cordier BS 4382; Yakushi K35.