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Secret Lives of Alexander David-Neel: The Life of Alexandra David-Neel: A Biography of the Explorer of Tibet and Its Forbidden Practices [Englisch] [Gebundene Ausgabe]

Barbara Foster , Michael Foster , Lawrence Durrell
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  • Gebundene Ausgabe: 304 Seiten
  • Verlag: Overlook Hardcover; Auflage: Revised (1. Mai 1997)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0879517743
  • ISBN-13: 978-0879517748
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,9 x 15,7 x 3,6 cm
  • Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.7 von 5 Sternen  Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.803.651 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The authors' affection for their subject is warmly communicated in this biography of David-Neel (18681969), the French Tibetophile who was the first European woman to explore the once forbidden (to foreigners) city of Lhasa. The Fosters already have one biography of David-Neel to their credit (Forbidden Journey, 1987). In their preface to this book, they present it as an entirely revised edition of the earlier one, incorporating information gleaned from additional source materials and interviews. The authors' characterization of their subject's many writings``witty and entertaining''applies as well to their own. The biography opens as a movie might, on David-Neel's surreptitious departure from Lhasa in May 1924, after having entered illegally following a perilous journey. Succeeding chapters flash back to her childhood, marriage, and first journeys east, culminating in the great trek by foot to Lhasa. The final chapters on the end of her life, back in France, also review her major writings, which include autobiography, novels, translations of Tibetan texts, and studies of Buddhism. The many epithets used throughout the book, in lieu of the heroine's namethe seeker, adventurer, pilgrim, scholar, orientalist, iconoclastgive some feel for the scope of her character and work. The authors present her as a Tantric mystic who scorned mystification; an ascetic who laid carpets in her Tibetan cave-dwelling; a radical democrat who, a colonialist still, condescended to her adopted Sikkimese son: in short, as the union of opposites that many deeply religious people are. The authors' principal concern is that David-Neel be remembered for her part in preserving Tibet's religious legacyespecially now that it is under attackthrough the texts she translated and saved for the West, including Tibetan versions of works no longer available in the original Sanskrit from the early Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna. From the joint talents of the authors (a librarian and a novelist) comes a winsome biography that takes its subject more seriously than itself. (26 b&w photos, not seen) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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An illustrated account of the life of the female explorer.

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An accomplished and exhaustively researched account of the life of Alexandra David-Neel, explorer, scholar, mystic and heroine to generations. The Fosters' meticulous research and obvious affinity for their subject results in a highly readable work that is part historical detective work, part travelog, and part cultural study. This book of broad based appeal will captivate students of history, armchair travellers, and anyone interested in Tibet and its people. There is no other comparable work available on this fascinating and timely subject.
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I first found a photocopy of THE SECRET LIVES OF ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL in a book stall in Dharamsala, India. It was well-thumbed, obviously someone's guide to an adventurous life. I read it over and over as I trekked in the Himalayas, while imagining that I could see the nomads in tents, pilgrim Buddhists who crossed the countryside on foot, monks in red robes, bandits on horseback, grimy mystics meditating in caves, bears, huge curly-haired mastiff dogs, and all the beautiful brown, almond-eyed Tibetans that the French woman explorer saw in that vast landscape of mountains and incredibly blue sky. THE SECRET LIVES OF ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL is a guide to a land of mist and mystery that we will never see again. The explorer arrived in Lhassa in 1924, disguised as a beggar--a women who traveled with a wash cloth, bath tub, a pot to cook in, and dried cereal to eat. Eventually, she traveled with only what she could carry, without porters, guides or friends, except for her devoted adopted son, an enlightened boy monk who sought adventure. People wonder why she traveled alone to the Land of the Snows. I marvel that she did it at all. Highly recommended for world and arm chair travelers!
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David-Neel herself is a truly inspiring example of a woman following her own path to be all she could be in an life that spans the end of last century and the first half of this one.

This book is a well-written biography that reads very easily and story-like without being novel-ized. Authors are clearly pained about having limited access to some of her personal documents, but have worked hard to document and put together a cohesive picture of her life. They admit to having "read between the lines" in some cases. They also do a great job of conveying enthusiasm (almost envy ;-)for David-Neel's achievements and research into tibetan lore and buddhism.

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