AuthorHarrer, Heinrich, 1912-2006
TitleBeyond seven years in Tibet / introduction by His Holiness the Dalai Lama ; translated by Tim Carruthers
Imprint Victoria : Labyrynth, 2007
Descript 511 p. illus. 24 cm

CONTENT

Boyhood dream -- Miracle on the white spider -- To the Himalaya -- Behind barbed wire -- Escape -- The village of happiness -- In the no-man's land of the Changtang -- The :forbidden city" of Lhasa -- An audience with the Dalai Lama -- Farewell to Tibet -- Kalimpong -- Return to Europe -- To the source of the Amazon -- On the lecture circuit -- Alaska -- Eternal ice at the equator -- Carstenz pyramid and the fall in a New Guinea Waterfall -- Back to the stone age -- The Indians of the Xingu River -- King Leopold of Belgium -- Malaria -- The warriors of the Hadendoa -- In the realm of the ancestors -- The last few hundred -- The dark continent -- Of man and beast -- Family adventures -- The many sources of the Ganges -- The other "roof of the world" -- Return to Tibet -- In the land of the thunder dragon -- Ladakh-little Tibet -- Encounters -- Homecoming -- Chronology of important expeditions and trips


SUBJECT

  1. Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Discovery and exploration -- Austrian
  2. Harrer
  3. Heinrich
  4. 1912-2006 -- Travel -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
  5. Tibet -- Description and travel

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