IN SECRET TIBET: IN DISGUISE AMONGST LAMAS, ROBBERS, WISE MEN - ILLION, 1st 1937
IN SECRET TIBET: IN DISGUISE AMONGST LAMAS, ROBBERS, WISE MEN - ILLION, 1st 1937
IN SECRET TIBET: IN DISGUISE AMONGST LAMAS, ROBBERS, WISE MEN - ILLION, 1st 1937
IN SECRET TIBET: IN DISGUISE AMONGST LAMAS, ROBBERS, WISE MEN - ILLION, 1st 1937
IN SECRET TIBET: IN DISGUISE AMONGST LAMAS, ROBBERS, WISE MEN - ILLION, 1st 1937
IN SECRET TIBET: IN DISGUISE AMONGST LAMAS, ROBBERS, WISE MEN - ILLION, 1st 1937

IN SECRET TIBET: IN DISGUISE AMONGST LAMAS, ROBBERS, WISE MEN - ILLION, 1st 1937

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  IN SECRET TIBET: IN DISGUISE AMONGST THE LAMAS, ROBBERS AND WISE MEN — By Theodore Illion, 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1937 — Tibetan Religion, Culture, Lamanism, Black Magic Practices and Ceremonies — Scarce

 Publisher: Rider and Co., London (1937) 

In well preserved condition. The boards and binding are solid and tight save for light shelfwear and fading to the spine. The pages are crisp and clean save for some light foxing on the endpapers and fore-edge along, with previous owner's signature and date of 1937 on the first blank page. Theodore Illion (1898 – September 4, 1984) was a travel book writer who claimed to have visited Tibet in the 1930s and discovered an underground city there. The author claims to have been able to stay in Tibet from 1934 till 1936, thanks to a disguise and his knowledge of Tibetan. He recounts his first meetings and in the second book his alleged discovery of an underground city which sheltered a community of highly initiated beings governed by a sorcerer and indulging in black magic and cannibalism. Contents include: Why and How I Travelled in Disguise; Amongst Kind and Hospitable Tibetan Nomads; Adventures with Brigands; Tibetan Civilization; The Strange Doings of the Lamas; Tibetan Miracles; Eternal Youth.