MARY RUSSELL. The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt. Women Travellers and their World
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
CHAPTER 1 ‘A Most Excellent Reason’
CHAPTER 2 Pilgrims to Freedom
CHAPTER 3 Flights of Fancy
CHAPTER 4 At Sea
CHAPTER 5 Reaching the Summit
CHAPTER 6 Queens of the Desert
CHAPTER 7 To Follow or to Lead?
CHAPTER 8 A Question of Duty
CHAPTER 9 Escape or Compromise?
CHAPTER 10 Risks and Dangers
CHAPTER 11 Survival Strategies
CHAPTER 12 ‘Merely Feminine Curiosity’
Epilogue ‘The Will of a Woman’
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Some works by women travellers
Copyright
About the Publisher
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For Freya, Deirdre and Russell
In memory of their father,
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Alexandra David-Neel was such an individual. Opera singer, journalist and oriental scholar, she travelled to Darjeeling where she met the exiled Dalai Lama and began to study Tibetan Buddhism. While there, she managed to make two unofficial visits across the border into Tibet, spending some time in a lamaserie before returning to Sikkim to spend the winter of 1914/15 living as a hermit in a cave, her food pushed through the curtain that covered the entrance. The local Sikkimese lamas were so impressed with her steadfastness that they invested her with the title of lamina and gave her the lama’s red robe to wear.
Annoyed by the audacious toing and froing of this determined Frenchwoman, the British authorities ordered her out of the area. It was this move – red rag to a bull – that finally concentrated her resolve: she would go to Lhasa.
