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My Journey to Lhasa
- The Personal Story of the Only White Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
- Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
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 city.
In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, disguised herself as a beggar with yak hair extensions and inked skin, and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the world.
With the help of her young companion, Yongden, she willingly suffered the primitive travel conditions, frequent outbreaks of disease, and the ever-present danger of border control and the military to reach her goal. The determination and sheer physical fortitude it took for this woman, delicately reared in Paris and Brussels, is an inspiration for men and women alike.
David-Neel is famous for being the first Western woman to have been received by any Dalai Lama and a passionate scholar and explorer of Asia. Hers is one of the most remarkable of all travel tales!
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- Purplelotus
- 15-01-23
Travelogue, Trauma and Triumph in Tibet
Alexandra David Neel was the first western woman to reach Lhasa. How she did this is incredible in itself. Combatting high passes deep in snow, also sleeping outside in such terrain on minimum and sometimes no rations she reached the restricted city of Tibet. Disguised as a Tibetan she visited the Potala and the holy Temples.
Her books always seem to be slightly sensationalist. Emphasising the weird and the wacky, magic and mystery (the title of one of her books) the outcasts and the downright dangerous this is not an inner pilgrimage of the Lama Govinda variety which is a shame as she was obviously an adept and her insights would have been fascinating.
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