by Heinrich Harrer, João Magalhães Monteiro · ASA EDIÇOES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724118970
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«Sete Anos No Tibete» is the memoir and travel work by Heinrich Harrer, published by ASA Edições in paperback (286 pages, in Portuguese).
During World War II, the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer escaped from a British prisoner-of-war camp in India and traveled on foot to Lhasa, the forbidden city of Tibet. There he lived for seven years, came to know its culture, and was a friend and tutor to the young Dalai Lama.
The work was originally published as «Sieben Jahre in Tibet» in 1953; this 1998 Portuguese edition includes the translation by João Magalhães Monteiro.
For readers interested in travel memoirs, Asian history and the figure of the Dalai Lama.
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).
