<p>‘It deserves its place among the few great travel stories of our times.’ The Times</p> <p>‘This is an absorbing and remarkable travel tale that also gives unparalleled accounts of the life and customs of an inaccessible region.’ Sunday Times</p> <p>‘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.’<br />Times Literary Supplement</p> <p>‘Some books, like some mountains, are lonely and unrivalled peaks. This is one of them.’ Economist</p>

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. Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was climbing in the Himalayas when war broke out in Europe. He was imprisoned by the British in India but succeeded in escaping and fled to Tibet. Settling in Lhasa, the Forbidden City, where he became a friend and tutor to the Dalai Lama, Heinrich Harrer spent seven years gaining a more profound understanding of Tibet and the Tibetans than any Westerner before him. More recently made into a film starring Brad Pitt, Seven Years in Tibet is a stunning story of incredible courage and self-reliance by one of the twentieth century’s best travel writers.
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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.
‘It deserves its place among the few great travel stories of our times.’ The Times ‘This is an absorbing and remarkable travel tale that also gives unparalleled accounts of the life and customs of an inaccessible region.’ Sunday Times ‘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 ‘Some books, like some mountains, are lonely and unrivalled peaks. This is one of them.’ Economist
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The gripping travel memoir of resilience and Himalayan adventure
The gripping travel memoir of resilience and Himalayan adventure • Seven Years in Tibet is one of the greatest and most enduring travel accounts of the twentieth century • The film version of Joe Simpson’s Touching the Void has been very successful and has rekindled interest in mountaineering and climbing stories. • The 1997 film version starring Brad Pitt was highly successful, and has helped to keep up public awareness of this classic book.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780586087077
Publisert
1988-11-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Flamingo
Vekt
240 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Oversetter

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Heinrich Harrer was born in 1912 in Carinthia. His skiing prowess won him a place in the 1936 Austrian Olympic team. He was part of the team that first scaled the notorious North Face of the Eiger in 1938, an adventure recounted in his book The White Spider. He died in 2006.