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My Journey to Lhasa: The Personal Story of the Only White Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
My Journey to Lhasa The Personal Story of the Only White Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City Author:Alexandra David-Neel 1927. Madame David-Neel's travels in remote parts of Asia, including her fifth expedition, a journey to Tibet, of which she gives a short account in the present book, were undertaken as the result of certain peculiar circumstances. The idea of visiting Lhasa became implanted in her mind. Before the frontier post to which she had been escorted, s... more »he took an oath that in spite of all obstacles, she would reach Lhasa and show what the will of a woman could achieve.« less