RIJNHART, SUSIE CARSON: - 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?).. 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. EUR 120.00 [Appr.: US$ 123.53 | £UK 101.5 | JP¥ 19431] Book number 121196is offered by:
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