Seven Years in Tibet

A Tarcher/Putnam trade paperback in very good condition. Covers are clean, square, and free of creasing or soiling. Light staining present to the page edges, confined to the margins and not affecting the text. Pages are bright and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, or annotations. Binding is firm and tight with no cracking. A clean, very good copy in all respects. Published by Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York, in 1997, this trade paperback edition of Seven Years in Tibet presents Heinrich Harrer's celebrated memoir in the standard English translation by Richard Graves, with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. First published in German in 1952 and in English translation in 1953, the memoir tells the true story of Austrian mountaineer and Olympic gold medallist Heinrich Harrer. He made an extraordinary journey across the Himalayan passes into Tibet, reaching Lhasa, the Forbidden City, penniless and in rags. Over seven years he rose to become a salaried Tibetan government official, court photographer, and tutor to the young fourteenth Dalai Lama, whose friendship he retained for the rest of his life. One of the great adventure memoirs of the twentieth century, the book has sold millions of copies worldwide and was adapted as a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt in 1997. Ships within Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.