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Travel with an Intrepid Explorer into the Heart of Tibet My Journey to Lhasa is a riveting account of one woman's determination to achieve her goal in the face of numerous formidable obstacles. Written in 1927 by Alexandra David-Neel, a French-Belgian explorer and spiritualist, the book chronicles her arduous journey to the sequestered city of Lhasa, Tibet's religious and administrative capital. By 1923 David-Neel had already traveled extensiv...

Travel with an Intrepid Explorer into the Heart of Tibet My Journey to Lhasa is a riveting account of one woman's determination to achieve her goal in the face of numerous formidable obstacles. Written in 1927 by Alexandra David-Neel, a French-Belgian explorer and spiritualist, the book chronicles her arduous journey to the sequestered city of Lhasa, Tibet's religious and administrative capital. By 1923 David-Neel had already traveled extensiv...

Travel with an Intrepid Explorer into the Heart of Tibet My Journey to Lhasa is a riveting account of one woman's determination to achieve her goal in the face of numerous formidable obstacles. Written in 1927 by Alexandra David-Neel, a French-Belgian explorer and spiritualist, the book chronicles her arduous journey to the sequestered city of Lhasa, Tibet's religious and administrative capital. By 1923 David-Neel had already traveled extensiv...

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Born in 1868 to a respectable French family, Alexandra David-Neel became the most remarkable female travel writer of the Twentieth century. David-Neel studied at the Sorbonne at a time when women were not allowed to formally matriculate and converted to Buddhism after viewing a statue of the Buddha in the Guimet Museum. In 1911 she set off, alone, to travel around India for the second time and in 1914 she secluded herself in a cave in the Hima...

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Le philosophe Men-Ti et L'idee de Solidarite. This book, "Socialisme chinois", by Alexandra David-Néel, is a replication of a book originally published before 1907. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.

Much has been written concerning Tibet and its secret lore, but precious few authors have actually visited 'The Land of Snows' and a vanishingly small number were vouchsafed the privilege of studying with Tibetan masters during the culture's heyday, long before its present domination by China.Alexandra David-Néel is one of this select group, and Magic and Mystery in Tibet is her account of the various mystical traditions she encountered while ...

Madame David-Neel understands, writes and speaks fluently all the dialects of Tibet. She has spent fourteen consecutive years in the country and the neighbouring regions. She is a professed Buddhist, and so has been able to gain the confidence of the most important Lamas. Her adopted son is an ordained lama, and she herself has undergone the psychic exercises of which she speaks. Madame David-Neel has in fact become, as she herself says, a com...

Alexandra David-Neel was among the first Westerners to extensively explore Tibet. In these memoirs she tells of her encounters there, the people and their culture, and fervently Buddhist society.The author's early years, wherein her enthusiasm for travel and curiosity of faraway cultures grew, are excluded from these pages. Rather we begin with David-Neel's first trip to Tibet, and her initial impressions of the country. The friends she makes,...

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