Secret Tibet. Translated from the Italian by Eric Mosbacher by Maraini, Fosco. Introduction by Bernard Berenson - 1952

New York: The Viking Press, 1952. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition (Bari: 1950). xiv, 306pp, 2 endpaper maps, more than seventy black & white illustrations from photographs by the author, reading list, index. Tall 8vo/24cm. Cloth, shelf wear only in slightly edgeworn dj, internally fine. A good description by a multi-talented writer and photographer who travelled with the distinguished Tibetologist Guiseppe Tucci on two of his expeditions in the nineteen thirties and forties. Fosco Maraini (1912-2004) was an Italian ethnologist, photographer, film maker, writer and professor. His writings on the disappearing cultures of Tibet and the Ainu people of Hokkaido are considered particularly important. Neate M48; Pinfold 98 and Yakushi M79..