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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City by Alexandra David-Neel, Dalai Lama Xiv, Diana N. Rowan Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-06-059655-4 / 0060596554 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-059655-2 / 9780060596552 In any time, Alexandra David-Neel would have been considered an extraordinary woman, but in the Victorian era, she was truly exceptional. Born in 1868, David-Neel eschewed the dances, dinners, and formal marriages common to women of her era and social standing in order to indulge her fierce inde |