My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City by Alexandra David-Néel

My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City

Alexandra David-Néel

368 pages • first pub 1927 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history memoir travel adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced
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In 1923, a fifty-five-year-old Frenchwoman named Madame Alexandra David-N el disguised herself as a male pilgrim and ascended to the ancient Tibetan city of Lhasa. David-N el's recounting of her journey is one of the great travelogues of the twent...

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