Author: Harrer, Heinrich (intro Peter Fleming),
Title: SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET.
Description: Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1953, 4th imp., corrected, xvi, 288pp, col'd frontis and 24pp half tone photo ills., dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, top edge col'd, pictorial dustwrapper, the classic account of the famous Austrian mountaineer, climbing in the Himalayas at the outbreak of WW2 he was interned in India, escaped and spent 7 years living with the Tibetans in the forbidden city of Lhasa, a little rubbed at extrems., lowewr cnrs. very sl. bumped, first 4pp of half tone photo ills. transposed and inverted, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems. with sl. surface loss and short edge tears at head of spine, internally repaired, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

Keywords: tibet lhasa india ww2 internment escape dalai lama


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