Seven Years in Tibet
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Seven Years in Tibet

Heinrich Harrer
4.1
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Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people.
Genres: NonfictionTravelHistoryBiographyMemoirAdventureBuddhismChinaClassicsBiography Memoir
330 Pages

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