DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRINE: - My Journey to Lhasa. The Personal Story of the Only White Woman who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City. London, Heinemann, 1927.

. Pp. xviii, (ii), 310. With front portrait and 43 half tones mostly taken from the author's photographs. Publisher's cloth printed in gilt, corners and spine ends chipped. Old ownership label pasted in on front paste down. Ugly marks to cover page numbering on the first five introductory leaves. First edition, simultaneously published in Paris and New York. Alexandrine spent several years preparing for the adventurous journey to the holy city of Lhasa. She studied thoroughly Tibetan customs and language. Disguised as a Tibetan nun she crossed the wild, unexplored parts of Tibet with her young companion Lama Yongden. After four and half months they reached Lhasa which at the time was closed to women. Robinson p. 9. Yakushi (1984) D 45b.

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