Een leven met Alexandra David-Néel #2

The second volume of this biographical graphic novel about the legendary explorer and Buddhist scholar Alexandra David-Néel opens with a quietly stunning cover: a lone woman in a blue Victorian dress and wide-brimmed hat stands before a grand circular library, her gaze lifted toward a luminous golden Buddha statue enthroned at its heart. The image perfectly captures the tension between Western tradition and Eastern spirituality that defined David-Néel's remarkable life. Writers Marie-Madeleine Peyronnet and Frédéric Campoy, with art by Campoy and Mathieu Blanchot, continue what promises to be a richly drawn portrait of one of history's most adventurous women.