Alexandra David-Neel was the first European to live in Tibet. As she explains in his introduction, eight months of wanderings completed in unaccustomed conditions through largely unexplored areas can be told in two or three hundred pages. So we find in this book, a summary of the long march to Lhasa it has done in the guise of a beggar pilgrim with his adopted son Yongden and their multiple ploys to cross the military posts. This heroic and fearless woman conveys his observations, his emotions mingled with fear, enchantment and delight when mysterious events come to give him a helping hand ...
"The East - especially in Tibet" - is the land of mystery and strange events. As long as we know look, listen, observe carefully and at length we discover a world beyond the one we are accustomed to regard as real only, perhaps because we do not analyze thoroughly enough phenomena which it comes and do not go back far enough from the chain of causes which determine it. "
During this exciting reading, one can only be impressed by this amazing feat shows us that when we want something with all his being, everything is possible!