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

376 pages first pub 1927 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir travel adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced

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 An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden cit...

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adventurous 100%
informative 100%
inspiring 66%
lighthearted 33%
reflective 33%

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medium 66%
slow 33%

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