Seven Years in Tibet

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The astonishing adventure classic about life in Tibet just before the Chinese Communist takeover is now repackaged for a new generation of readers.

In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies around the world, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as one of the crucial first Europeans ever to go into Tibet and encounter the Dalai Lama.
Firstly published in 1953, this adventure classic recounts Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer’s 1943 escape from a British internment camp in India, his daring trek around the Himalayas, and his happy sojourn in Tibet, then, as now, a remote land little visited by foreigners. Warmly welcomed, he in the end turned into tutor to the Dalai Lama, teenaged god-king of the theocratic nation. The writer’s vivid descriptions of Tibetan rites and customs capture its unique traditions before the Chinese invasion in 1950, which prompted Harrer’s departure. A 1996 epilogue main points the genocidal havoc wrought over the last half-century.

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