Product Description: Sky Burial is the remarkable story of a young American physician who witnesses the largest independence demonstrations in Lhasa since China entered Tibet in 1949. After graduating from medical school, Blake Kerr hitch-hiked across the Tibetan Plateau with a college friend, John Ackerly, and trekked as high as they could on the Tibetan side of Everest in sneakers...read more

Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people

Product Description: Translated From The German By Edward Fitzgerald.

Long out of print in America, the story of the events leading up to the author's adventures recounted in the best-selling Seven Years in Tibet follows his 1938 ascent, as a young mountain climber, of the Swiss Eiger. Reprint. AB. (view table of contents)

Explores nature as a tool for learning about the spiritual self, offering a Zen-based narrative of the author's wilderness adventures while presenting exercises for turning off the conscious mind and achieving enlightenment. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Mixing history, religion, and travel writing, the author of Seven Years in Tibet recounts his return to Tibet after being forced to flee by the invading Chinese army and discusses the Buddhists' struggle for survival. Original.

Product Description: This book provides a unique record of life in and around Tibet's capital city, Lhasa, as it will never be seen again, when Tibetan culture was still ignorant of other 20th century cultures. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET, Heinrich Harrer related his escape from British internment in India, his epic hike to Tibet, and his seven idyllic years there. Thirty years later, in 1982, he went back. Three decades are small in the flow of time, but the changes were profound...read more

Describes how Tibet has changed under Chinese rule, looks at the life of the exiled Dalai Lama, and discusses ways to preserve Tibet's cultural heritage

Product Description: In 1943, Heinrich Harrer escaped from an internment camp at Dehra-Dun and headed for Tibet. Here he rose from being a destitute alien vagabond to a post as tutor and confidant of the young Dalai Lama.