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Plot. 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 Tibet to Lhasa, the capital. Here they spent several years, and Harrer describes the contemporary Tibetan culture in detail.
The scientific Tibet legacy of Peter Aufschnaiter. Nearly fifty years after his death, the overwhelming majority of the scientific legacy of Peter Aufschnaiter—first and foremost his diaries, manuscripts (in particular a substantial book manuscript about Tibet), documents, texts (in German, English and partly in Tibetan), correspondence ...
Orchid Press, 2002 - History - 208 pages. This is a highly illustrated, personal account of Peter Aufschnaiter's eight-year sojourn in Tibet, characterized by his empathy for and...
Jul 18, 2006 · by Peter Aufschnaiter, Martin Brauen. Hardcover. Buy Used. Add To Wishlist. All Available Copies Find out more about shipping times from these sellers. Overview. About the Author. Awards. Professional Reviews. Reader Reviews. Overview. Through his bestselling Seven Years in Tibet, the world came to know the exploits of Heinrich Harrar.
Oct 6, 2023 · Der Tiroler Peter Auschnaiter hat 1929 und 1931 an den ersten deutschen Himalaya-Expeditionen teilgenommen und leitete 1939 die Nanga-Parbat-Expedition. Dort kam er gemeinsam mit Heinrich Harrer in Gefangenschaft, aus der sie gemeinsam nach Tibet flüchteten.
MY SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET. HEINRICH HARRER. When Exp dition, I left I Europe ce tainly in never 1939, thought as a member that I of would the German stay in Asia Nanga for Parbat thirteen years. The leader of the expedition was another Austrian, Peter. Aufschnaiter, and we were to reconnoitre the Diamir face of that difficult mountain.
The reason Aufschnaiter’s book has one more year in the title than Harrer’s is instructive. Harrer fled Tibet with the Dalai Lama in 1951, but Aufschnaiter was so enamored of everything about Tibet – its landscapes, people, and culture – that he found it hard to tear himself away.
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