Alexandra David-Néel, a fearless French opera singer/traveller/spiritualist and writer, who, in the 1920s, became the first European woman to visit forbidden Tibet, and later inspired the famous beat writers Kerouac and Ginsberg. Claiming to be magically taught the Tibeten language by a mountain wizard who could “fly through the air, command demons, and kill men with a glance”, she was described by the great English writer and poet, Lawrence Durrell, as "the most astonishing ...Alexandra David-Néel, a fearless French opera singer/traveller/spiritualist and writer, who, in the 1920s, became the first European woman to visit forbidden Tibet, and later inspired the famous beat writers Kerouac and Ginsberg. Claiming to be magically taught the Tibeten language by a mountain wizard who could “fly through the air, command demons, and kill men with a glance”, she was described by the great English writer and poet, Lawrence Durrell, as "the most astonishing ...
Alexandra David-Néel, a fearless French opera singer/traveller/spiritualist and writer, who, in the 1920s, became the first European woman to visit forbidden Tibet, and later inspired the famous beat writers Kerouac and Ginsberg. Claiming to be magically taught the Tibeten language by a mountain wizard who could “fly through the air, command demons, and kill men with a glance”, she was described by the great English writer and poet, Lawrence Durrell, as "the most astonishing ...