Seven Years in Tibet - Wikipedia

Seven Years in Tibet - Wikipedia



Seven Years in Tibet
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to navigationJump to search
This article is about the book. For the feature film adaptation, see Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film).
Seven Years in Tibet
First UK edition
Author Heinrich Harrer
Original title Sieben Jahre in Tibet. Mein Leben am Hofe des Dalai Lama
Genre Travel literature
Publisher Rupert Hart-Davis (UK)
E.P. Dutton (US)

Publication date 1952

Published in English 1953 (UK)
1954 (US)
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)


Seven Years in Tibet: My Life Before, During and After (1952; German: Sieben Jahre in Tibet. Mein Leben am Hofe des Dalai Lama; 1954 in English) is an autobiographical travel book written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer based on his real life experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during the Second World War and the interim period before the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army invaded Tibet in 1950.


Contents
1Plot
2Publication
3Films
4Song
5References
6External links
Plot[edit]

The book covers the escape of Harrer and his companion, Peter Aufschnaiter, from a British internment camp in India.[1] Harrer and Aufschnaiter then traveled across Tibetto Lhasa, the capital. Here they spent several years, and Harrer describes the contemporary Tibetan culture in detail. Harrer subsequently became a tutor and friend of the 14th Dalai Lama.

It has been said that the book "provided the world with a final glimpse of life in an independent Tibetan state prior to the Chinese invasion."[2]
Publication[edit]

Seven Years in Tibet was translated into 53 languages, became a bestseller in the United States in 1954, and sold three million copies.[3]

At the beginning of the Flamingo edition of the book, a message from the 14th Dalai Lamapraises the work: "Harrer has always been such a friend to Tibet. His most important contribution to our cause, his book, Seven Years in Tibet, introduced hundreds of thousands of people to my country." When Harrer died, he repeated his praise of the author and sent a message of sympathy to Harrer's widow.[2]
Films[edit]

Two films have been based on the book: Seven Years in Tibet (1956), a 76-minute documentary directed by Hans Nieter which includes both movies shot by Harrer during his stay in Tibet and various scenes from his adventures reconstructed by Harrer himself, and Seven Years in Tibet (1997), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Brad Pittas Harrer and David Thewlis as Aufschnaiter.[1]
Song[edit]

There is also a David Bowie song entitled "Seven Years in Tibet", from his album Earthling(1997).
References[edit]

^ Jump up to:a b John Gittings (9 January 2006). "Obituary: Heinrich Harrer". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
^ Jump up to:a b "Dalai Lama says Harrer was a loyal friend". International Campaign for Tibet. 10 January 2006. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
^ Martin, Douglas Martin (January 10, 2006). "Heinrich Harrer, 93, Explorer of Tibet, Dies". The New York Times.
External links[edit]
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.148869/page/n5 Copy of book on the Internet Archive
"Book Review: Seven Years in Tibet". The Open Critic. 1956. Archived from the original on January 17, 2013.

Authority control

GND: 4482563-8
VIAF: 225144928855954440157
WorldCat Identities (via VIAF): 225144928855954440157

This article about a travel book is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This Tibet-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Categories:
1952 books
Travel books
Tibetan Buddhist art and culture
Memoirs of imprisonment
Austrian books
Books about Tibet
Books adapted into films
Tibet
Austrian autobiographies
Travel book stubs
Tibet stubs