Return To Tibet

Description

Thirty years after his first visit the author returns to Tibet, the "rooftop of the world". Before, he told of an idyllic existence and inner peace. Now he describes how the Chinese have attempted to destroy this ancient civilization ever since invading. He also examines the current thaw in Peking's relationship with this isolated country, and meets some old acquaintances including the Dalai Lama, currently living in exile in northern India.

Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer and author. He is best known for being on the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland, and for his books, including SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET and THE WHITE SPIDER.

His vivid comparative reporting, the clear accounts of a number of important interviews and contemporary themes and his deeply felt sense of human tragedy give this book an importance for the general reader far greater than other tourist travelogues of the last few years - Times Literary Supplement