My Journey to Lhasa

<p><strong>Involves us intensely in a world that no longer exists--that of free Tibet. . . . Fervent and admirably unsentimental . . . [David-Neel] had to exercise the utmost ingenuity to survive.-- <em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p>Originally published in 1927 <em>My Journey to Lhasa</em> is a powerful entertaining record of danger and achievement that has become one of the most remarkable and inspirational of all travelers' tales. Disguised as a beggar Alexandra David-Neel tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate suffered primitive travel conditions frequent outbreaks of disease the ever-present danger of border control and the military to become the first woman to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa--and the first Western woman to have been received by any Dalai Lama.</p>