Heinrich Harrer, "Seven Years in Tibet"
Publisher: Penguin Putnam | 1982 | ISBN: 0874778883 | English | PDF | 170 pages | 38.99 Mb
Publisher: Penguin Putnam | 1982 | ISBN: 0874778883 | English | PDF | 170 pages | 38.99 Mb
Seven Years in Tibet is a heartwarming non-fictional book which shows the adventure of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. This book covers the escape of Heinrich and his friend peter from British internment camp in India. They go to Lhasa, Tibet. This story is before independence and before china invaded Tibet. This story will make the people see what happened when china invaded Tibet. Heinrich beautifully represents the culture and art of Tibet. This book also shows close friendship between heirich and his holiness Dalai Lama. The book shows the difference between the way Harrer thinks of the 14th Dalai Lama and the way the country of Tibet sees the 14th Dalai Lama. This book has been the best seller of USA too. This book has also been published under the name of Lost Lhasa: Heinrich Harrer's Tibet. Heinrich also returned to Tibet after the Chinese invaded Tibet and wrote another book with Ewald Osers called RETURN TO TIBET. This book is so nicely written that it can change people's point of view towards many things…
‘Like the voyage of the Kon-Tiki, it deserves to take its place among the few great travel stories of our own times’
The Times
‘Few adventureres in this century have had the combined luck and hardihood to return with such news as this. Fewer still have rendered it so powerfully unadorned.’
Times Literary Supplement
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From the Back Cover
Heinrich Harrer, already a famous mountaineer and Olympic ski champion, was caught by the outbreak of the Second World War while climbing in the Himalayas. Being an Austrian, he was interned in India. By an almost super-human effort, and on his third attempt, he succeeded in escaping into Tibet.
After a series of remarkable experiences in a country never before crossed by a Westerner, he reached the forbidden city of Lhasa. He stayed there for seven years, learned the language and acquired a greater understanding of Tibet and Tibetans than a Westerner had ever before achieved. He became friend and tutor to the young Dalai Lama and finally accompanied him into India when he was put to flight by the Red Chinese invasion.
'Seven Years in Tibet', Heinrich Harrer's classic account of his amazing escape into Tibet during the Second World War, has been made into a major motion picture from Mandalay Entertainment, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Brad Pitt and David Thewlis.
'Few adventurers in this century have had the combined luck and hardihood to return with such news as this. Fewer still have rendered it so powerfully unadorned'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
The Times
‘Few adventureres in this century have had the combined luck and hardihood to return with such news as this. Fewer still have rendered it so powerfully unadorned.’
Times Literary Supplement
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From the Back Cover
Heinrich Harrer, already a famous mountaineer and Olympic ski champion, was caught by the outbreak of the Second World War while climbing in the Himalayas. Being an Austrian, he was interned in India. By an almost super-human effort, and on his third attempt, he succeeded in escaping into Tibet.
After a series of remarkable experiences in a country never before crossed by a Westerner, he reached the forbidden city of Lhasa. He stayed there for seven years, learned the language and acquired a greater understanding of Tibet and Tibetans than a Westerner had ever before achieved. He became friend and tutor to the young Dalai Lama and finally accompanied him into India when he was put to flight by the Red Chinese invasion.
'Seven Years in Tibet', Heinrich Harrer's classic account of his amazing escape into Tibet during the Second World War, has been made into a major motion picture from Mandalay Entertainment, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Brad Pitt and David Thewlis.
'Few adventurers in this century have had the combined luck and hardihood to return with such news as this. Fewer still have rendered it so powerfully unadorned'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT