Lecture and
Slide Presentation
By Barbara Foster, Woman's Historian, Professor and Author of the Biography

The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel

As featured in
The Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC,
The Los Angeles Museum
of Natural History, and
The Rubin Museum of Art

Sierra Friends of Tibet is pleased to host Barbara Foster, author of the book The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel  (Overlook Press 1998: paperback, 2002).

Barbara presents a slide lecture tracing David-Neel's pilgrimage through India, China and Tibet. The show also covers Alexandra's early life in Paris, her radical student phase, opera career, early journalistic efforts, long distance marriage and meeting with a remarkable guru. In 1924,
at age 55, disguised as a beggar in the dead of winter, she snuck
into Lhasa, Tibet. This daring journey showed the will of this
remarkable woman, for many men with large retinues died
on the treacherous trek.

Barbara Foster is an Associate Professor in the Library
Department at CUNY. She is a world traveler in the tradition of
the heroic women she writes about and has acted as a referee
for the Royal Geographical Society (London).
PLACERVILLE
Thursday, August 19,
7:00 pm
El Dorado County Library
345 Fair Lane
For Info. Call Linda
(530) 672 3177
In Cooperation with Hidden Passage Books          

GRASS VALLEY
Saturday, August 21,
7:30 pm
Saint Joseph's Cultural Center
410 South Church St.
(corner of Church & Chapel)
For Info. Call Joseph
(530) 272-4725

10 Suggested Donation. Room permitting, no one is ever turned away due to lack of funds.