The book seems to me to give a better picture of life in Tibet than any other I know. There are accounts of the great New Year’s Festival in Lhasa, of other celebrations, of daily life among monks, nobles, and commoners, of habits, dress, and the common occurrences of life. The result is a simple, charming narrative, with no heroics, no metaphysics, no scorn of primitive conditions but a full recognition of the attractive and unattractive parts of Tibetan life. In his preface the author says, “As I have no experience as an author I shall content myself with the unadorned facts.” And this is precisely what he has done. The book then details their life there for the next five years, where they worked as translators, engineers, sports instructors, etc., and the author became a personal friend of the Dalai Lama. This book is an account of how, by a combination of diplomacy, personal charm, guile, bluff and daring escapes over the passes, the author and his companion arrived in Lhasa after 21 months of effort. Escaping in May 1943, he was recaptured and brought back to the prison camp, where he escaped again in April 1944 and ultimately made his way with one German companion to Lhasa where he lived for five years until the Chinese invaded Tibet. On the way home he was picked up by the British and interned in a prisoner-of-war camp at the foot of the mountains in northwestern India. The author was a member of the 1939 German reconnaissance expedition to Nanga Parbat. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1954, 314 pages, 46 photographs, and 2 maps. 288 pages, 1 colored frontispiece, and 25 black and white illustrations. of violence and chases 20% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 20% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 20% How society works & physical descript.Seven Years in Tibet, by Heinrich Harrer, translated from the German by Richard Graves. Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book descript.
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