Seven Years In Tibet PDF Book

Author : Heinrich Harrer
Publisher : Tarcher
Release : 1982
Category : Tibet (China)
ISBN : 0874772176
File Size : 24,9 Mb
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Book Summary: In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as one of the first Europeans ever to enter Tibet. Harrer was traveling in India when the Second World War erupted. He was subsequently seized and imprisoned by British authorities. After several attempts, he escaped and crossed the rugged, frozen Himalayas, surviving by duping government officials and depending on the generosity of villagers for food and shelter.Harrer finally reached his ultimate destination-the Forbidden City of Lhasa-without money, or permission to be in Tibet. But Tibetan hospitality and his own curious appearance worked in Harrer's favor, allowing him unprecedented acceptance among the upper classes. His intelligence and European ways also intrigued the young Dalai Lama, and Harrer soon became His Holiness's tutor and trusted confidant. When the Chinese invaded Tibet in 1950, Harrer and the Dalai Lama fled the country together.This timeless story illuminates Eastern culture, as well as the childhood of His Holiness and the current plight of Tibetans. It is a must-read for lovers of travel, adventure, history, and culture. A motion picture, under the direction of Jean-Jacques Annaud, will feature Brad Pitt in the lead role of Heinrich Harrer.

Author : Heinrich Harrer
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780007323388
File Size : 29,8 Mb
Total Download : 805

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Book Summary: A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer’s escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.

Author : Peter Aufschnaiter
Publisher : Unknown
Release : 2002
Category : Tibet (China)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114354470
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Total Download : 759

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Book Summary: This is a highly illustrated, personal account of Peter Aufschnaiter's eight-year sojourn in Tibet, characterized by his empathy for and understanding of Tibetan culture and enriched by his photographs and sketches. The text is a sensitive record of the Tibetans and their way of life and ends of the eve of the Chinese invasion that was to wreak such irreversible damage to this unique culture.

Author : Jean-Jacques Annaud,Becky Johnston,Laurence B. Chollet
Publisher : Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks
Release : 1997
Category : Seven years in Tibet (Motion picture)
ISBN : 1557043426
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Total Download : 788

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Book Summary: To coincide with the October film from Mandalay/TriStar, this a beautiful hardcover book features color photos, the script, and story behind the epic movie based on the classic memoir of Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, starring Brad Pitt and David Thewlis. 100 photos & drawings.

Author : Heinrich Harrer
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007347575
File Size : 10,8 Mb
Total Download : 557

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Book Summary: A classic of mountaineering literature, this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the most legendary and terrifying climb in history.

Author : Heinrich Harrer
Publisher : Spiral Publishing, Incorporated
Release : 2007
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 1921196009
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Total Download : 657

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Book Summary: The full autobiography of one of the world's most wellknown adventurers. Heinrich Harrer, traveller, explorerand mountaineer led one of the most extraordinary livesof the twentieth century. He famously spent Seven Yearsin Tibet (published in 1953 and made into the filmstarring Brad Pitt in 1997) and was tutor, mentor and alifelong ......

Author : Thubten Jigme Norbu,Heinrich Harrer
Publisher : Unknown
Release : 1986-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047787778
File Size : 33,9 Mb
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Book Summary: The moving biography of Thubten Jigme Norbu, an elder brother of the fourteenth Dalai Lama. Thubten Norbu recalls the details of his life: his childhood, his recognition as a reincarnated lama, the story of his brother, and the exile of thousands of Tibetans from their homeland. Thubten Norbu told his story (it was actually taped) to Heinrich Harrer who spent Seven Years in Tibet (Harrer's account appeared in 1954) and was the tutor to the Dalai Lama.

Author : Orville Schell
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0805043829
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Total Download : 927

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Book Summary: What has made remote, mountainous Tibet and its only real celebrity, the Dalai Lama, so abidingly fascinating to the West? In Virtual Tibet, Orville Schell, one of the preeminent experts on modern China and Tibet, undertakes a strange and wondrous odyssey into our Tibetan fantasies. He recounts the spellbinding adventures of the Western explorers and spiritualists who for centuries were bent on reaching forbidden Tibet and the holy city of Lhasa. Simultaneously, Schell embarks on a parallel present-day journey from Beastie Boys' "Free Tibet" concerts to a re-creation of Lhasa in the high Argentine Andes -- the extravagant set of Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt. At once comic and insightful, Virtual Tibet takes us beyond the fantasies to the reality of an isolated country that has repeatedly won the West's adoration, and paid the price for believing that our allegiance is profound.