![]() ![]() Condition:corners bumped spine slightly shelf faded: gift inscription: page edgings, back end papers and last few page margins foxed: overall clean and good. ![]() ![]() His story is complimented by photographic illustration. He was received with kindness, and in a five year sojourn his status progressed from that of destitute and alien interloper to well-rewarded tutor and confidant of the young Dalai Lama. Synopsis: Translated from the German by Richard Graves, and introduced by Peter Fleming, a lively account by Henrich Harrer of the progress and detail of his extraordinary incursion into the withdrawn, and at the time little-known, country of Tibet, where he reached the capital, Llasa in 1943 as an almost penniless fugitive with no status or papers. approx 24 b/w photographic illustrations, including 20 full- page: b/w map: coloured frontispiece. Rupert Hart-Davis 1953: 6th impression of the first edition: blue cloth hard cover : no dust jacket: 288 pages. ![]()
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