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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."
