Very RARE 1903 new and revised edition of Edward Carpenter's "From Adam's Peak to Elephanta: Sketches in Ceylon and India". Bright highly decorated front board, wear head and tail of spine with stains on boards and spine. Inside very good clean and complete-see photos as part of description. Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), a gay icon, was drawn to Hinduism and traveled to India and Ceylon in 1890. His account of the travel was published herein. The book's spiritual explorations would subsequently influence the Russian author Peter Ouspensky, who discusses it extensively in his own book, Tertium Organum (1912). Uncommon. Rarity.