Originally published in English in 1932 Magic and Mystery in Tibet is an account of traveler and spiritualist Alexandra David-Neel's 14 years in Tibet at a time when the country was closed to foreigners. This true story reads like a novel compared to earlier travel books from the 19th century artfully invoking pictures of what it was like to live in Tibet during a time when few outsiders had seen its soil. David-Neel lets readers inside her head and describes what it was like to live with and le