“How happy I was to be there, en route for the mystery of these unexplored heights, alone in the great silence, tasting the sweets of solitude and tranquillity.”ĪLEXANDRA DAVID-NÉEL’S travelogue, which includes an introduction by Tenzin Gyatzo, the 14th Dalai Lama, belongs to an era when it was possible to slip into a protracted obscurity and follow one’s dreams to the very end of the earth, no matter how absurd or phantasmagorical.
How a woman’s quest for solitude led her to Tibet’s forbidden city
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