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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by Peter Fleming, a lively account by Henrich Harrer of the progress and detail of his extraordinary incursion into the withdrawn, and at the time little-known, country of Tibet, where he reached the capital, Llasa in 1943 as an almost penniless fugitive with no status or papers. The Dalai Lama and Heinrich Harrer meet after Harrer escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp in India during World War II. approx 24 b/w photographic illustrations, including 20 full- page: b/w map: coloured frontispiece. The White Spider (1959 with chapters added in 1964 original title: Die Weisse Spinne) is a non-fiction book by Heinrich Harrer that describes the first successful ascent of the infamous north face ( Nordwand) of the Eiger, a mountain in the Berner Oberland of the Swiss Alps, with sections devoted to the history of mountaineering in the area.

Harrer asked Heinrich Himmler, the SS leader, for permission to marry and provided the requisite family trees to show that he and his bride. Rupert Hart-Davis 1953: 6th impression of the first edition: blue cloth hard cover : no dust jacket: 288 pages. The magazine also published a 1938 document in which Mr.

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