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Brown, Don

Far beyond the Garden Gate: Alexandra David-Neel's Journey to Lhasa

32 pp. | Houghton | September, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-618-08364-2 $$16.00

(2) K-3 In 1911, at forty-three, this intrepid traveler goes to Asia, where she spends a year learning Tibetan with a mountain-dwelling hermit and another three years translating old texts before taking on the most audacious of her ventures: Lhasa, the Forbidden City. Brown's present-tense narrative uses simple but riveting language, and he interjects the subject's own words for drama. An author's note retraces highlights. Bib.

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2002