My Journey to Lhasa
The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
by Alexandra DavidNeel
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An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David_x0096_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 city. In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, di...
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