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. |