The Spirit’s Pilgrimage by Madeleine Slade (Mira Behn)

The Spirit’s Pilgrimage, Madeleine Slade (Mira Behn). Coward-McCann, New York. Foreword by Vincent Sheean. First American edition, 1960. Good copy in good dustjacket. Dustjacket has wear, chips, creases, stains. Price intact on front flap. Red cloth cover has wear at corners, bottom edges, and top and bottom of spine. Dinged back corners. Faded red and stain at top page edges. Interior is in good condition overall, with faint stains near the top gutter area on several pages, gift inscription on front pasted end paper. Pages unmarked. Black & white photos.

Mira Behn was the daughter of an English admiral who became a disciple of Gandhi. Paramahansa Yogananda conversed with her when he visited Gandhi during his return trip to India in 1935-36. In The Spirit’s Pilgrimage she wrote: “At this distance of time I cannot recall many of them [people who had visited Gandhi], but two remain clearly in my mind: Halide Edib Hanum, the celebrated woman writer of Turkey; and Swami Yogananda, founder of Self-Realization Fellowship of America.”

A review of The Spirit’s Pilgrimage appeared in the July-August 1961 issue of Self-Realization Magazine, and excerpts from the book in the September-October 1962 issue.