by Heinrich Harrer · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140077742
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«Return to Tibet» is Heinrich Harrer's travelogue, published by Penguin Books Ltd in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Almost three decades after fleeing Lhasa, Heinrich Harrer returns to Tibet and describes how the Chinese occupation transformed the country. Amid the ruins of monasteries, he reunites with old acquaintances and the Dalai Lama, and reflects on faith, resistance, and the survival of Tibetan culture in the face of its disappearance.
Original title: Wiedersehn mit Tibet; English translation by Ewald Osers. Published in 1985.
For readers interested in the history of Tibet, travel writing, and Buddhist spirituality.
Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and an SS sergeant. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the "last problem" of the Alps, in July 1938. Harrer and the team flew the Nazi flag atop the mountain. Harrer had joined the Nazi Party shortly after the annexation of Austria in March 1938, and was personally received by Hitler after the climb. A year later in 1939, he and the climbing team went on an expedition to the Indian Himalayas, where they were arrested by British colonial authorities due to the outbreak of World War II. He eventually escaped to Tibet, staying there until 1951. He is the author of two autobiographical books, Seven Years in Tibet (1952) and The White Spider (1959).
