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CAREY, William

"Adventures in Tibet: Including the Diary of Miss Annie R. Taylor's remarkable journey from Tau-Chau to Ta-Chien-Lu through the heart of the ""Forbidden land"""
Toronto
William Briggs
[1901]
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8°, 285 pp, numerous plates from photographs, drawings, etc, original pictorial yellow cloth. First edition in Canada

Carey traveled to Tibet in 1899, visiting Taylor at her shop in Yatung. Taylor had penetrated deep into Tibet in 1892-93 and her diary consists of about 112 pages of the book. Robinson 172: ''Little Annie Taylor from Cheshire was the first European woman ever to enter forbidden land of Tibet, and came closer to its sacred capital of Lhasa than any European at all since the Jesuit missionaries of Huc and Gabet in 1846... The whole harrowing journey of 1,300 miles took seven months to complete."" She had learned the language and habits from Tibetan natives and was able to enter Tibet as a pilgrim in disguise but was betrayed by her guide

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