A Stranger In Tibet The Adventures Of A Zen Monk - By Scott Berry

Hardcover, first published in Great Britain by Collins, in association with Kodansha International Ltd, 1990. The jacket is whole, but lightly edgeworn and rubbed in places. The reverse has a few small spots of ink / liquid. The boards are square and neat, but the front one has a narrow band of discolouration at the bottom. All pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. "On July 4, 1900, in one of the great unheralded moments in the history of exploration, a young Japanese Zen monk named Kawaguchi Ekai crossed from Nepal to Tibet. He was already the first Japanese to have visited Nepal; he now became the first to enter Tibet, and went on the reach the forbidden city of Lhasa - at a time when Tibet was closed to the outside world."