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"Seven Years in Tibet" is the extraordinary true story of how a young Austrian adventurer became tutor and friend to the Dalai Lama. This timeless story illuminates Eastern culture, as well as the childhood of His Holiness and the current plight of Tibetans. A major motion picture will feature Brad...

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Main Author: Harrer, Heinrich, 1912-2006
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
German
Published: New York, NY : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, [1997]
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Tibet (China) > Description and travel.
Harrer, Heinrich, > 1912-2006.
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Summary:"Seven Years in Tibet" is the extraordinary true story of how a young Austrian adventurer became tutor and friend to the Dalai Lama. This timeless story illuminates Eastern culture, as well as the childhood of His Holiness and the current plight of Tibetans. A major motion picture will feature Brad Pitt in the lead role of Heinrich Harrer.
Physical Description:329 p. : map ; 21 cm.
ISBN:0874778883 (pbk.)
9780874778885 (pbk.)
Author Notes:In 1939 Harrer was a member of the Nanga Parbat Expedition that was interned in India by the British at the outbreak of World War II. He escaped by way of Tibet, and during his seven years there, he was unofficial tutor to the Dalai Lama in Lhasa, whom he taught geography, arithmetic, and English. Harrer is an Austrian, and during his years at the College and University of Graz, he climbed hundreds of walls and ridges in the Alps, some for the first time.

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