FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, colour-printed frontispiece and 21 plates showing numerous monochrome photographs, a couple double-spread, double-page map preceding text, some light spotting, pp. xiii, [2], 288, 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly faded, one corner gently knocked, top edge pink now faded, some faint spotting to edges and endpapers, pencilled ownership inscription to flyleaf, dustjacket slightly rubbed and chipped at extremities, very good. The author was an Austrian mountaineer and skier, who had been arrested and interned by British Forces in India whilst attempting a climb in the region in the first year of the Second World War; his affiliation with the Nazi Party was only revealed in 1997, with Harrer apologising for it as a youthful folly. This memoir is a detailed portrait of contemporary Tibet; through Harrer's time in the country, he became a tutror and close friend of the Dalai Lama. Seller Inventory # 76500

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Title: Seven Years in Tibet. Translated from the ...

Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis

Publication Date: 1953

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