Seven years in Tibet / by Heinrich Harper; translated by Richard Graves.

Cont.: Introduction -- Preface -- Internment -- Escape -- Into Tibet -- The Village of happiness -- On the move -- The worst trek of all -- The Forbidden City -- Calm waters -- Asylum granted -- Life in Lhasa-I -- Life in Lhasa-II -- An Attempted coup d'état -- Commissions from the government -- Tibet prepares for trouble -- Tutor to the Dalai Lama -- Tibet is invaded -- I leave Tibet.

An account of an Austrian mountain climber's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his twenty-one-month journey through the Himalayas to safety in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet