Author: RIJNHART, SUSIE CARSON:
Title: With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple. Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Border, and of a Journey into the Far Interior. Fifth edition. Foreign Christian Missionary Society, Cincinnati, Ohio, (1905?).
Description: . Pp. (viii), 406. With one folding map and thirteen plates (mainly photographs). Publisher's cloth stamped in black, lightly darkened. Old ownership signature.Susan Carson, a Canadian doctor married a Dutch missionary Petrus Rijnhart who had joined the China Inland Mission in 1890. In 1898 Susie, Petrus and their little baby boy started a journey towards the forbidden city of Lhasa. But they never reached it. During the journey Rijnhart's child had died, Petrus mysterously disappeared and Susan had to make a two-month hazardous journey back to China by herself. First edition was issued in 1901. Robinson p.170. Yakushi (1984) R117a.

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