Seven Years in Tibet (Sieben Jahre in Tibet)

Heinrich Harrer First published 1952

About this book

An account of an Austrian mountain climber's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his twenty-one-month journey through the Himalayas to safety in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet.

Subjects

  • autobiography
  • biography
  • childhood and youth
  • china
  • description
  • description and travel
  • descriptions et voyages
  • escaped prisoners of war
  • germany, biography
  • history
  • long now manual for civilization
  • manners and customs
  • social life and customs
  • tibet
  • tibet autonomous region (china)
  • tibet autonomous region (china), description and travel
  • tibet (china)
  • travel