Seven years in Tibet

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• mjb · Jun 7, 2024 · Recommends

  …(maybe history's single greatest suffer-fest, incredible). - Touching The Void by Joe Simpson (I avoided reading this for such a long time, because it's something of a cliche, but it's actually great). - Seven Years in Tibet in Heinrich Harrer (It's hard to know how reliable this is, and it's a bit of a tall tale, but it's absolutely not the book I expected it to be going in). - Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer (Bite-sized bits…

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• mr_gibbins · Jul 13, 2021 · Recommends

  …find a book on, say, Russian modern history that will give me far more in-depth information in the first ten pages than I can find online. Same applies for almost any genre, except perhaps fiction. Seven Years In Tibet taught me more about Tibetan geography and culture than any amount of Googling could do. The idea of an infinite knowledge bank is appealing and I think the Internet could have made it - imagine a suite…

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• hutzlibu · Mar 15, 2022 · Recommends

  …feudal theocracy, with no dissent allowed, either. But that is history. Modern Tibet deserves to make their own choices, I hope they get the chance to make them one day. And about old Tibet, I recommend "Seven Years in Tibet", real story of a Nazi who fled a british war prisoner camp in india and then spend 7 years in Tibet, also as a teacher for the young Dalai Lama, until the chinese came. I read and recommend the book,…

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• vram22 · Nov 22, 2017 · Recommends

  Though not along the same lines as the other stories mentioned here, Seven Years in Tibet was an interesting book, also made into a film.

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• dmm · Jul 27, 2010 · Mentions

  Heinrich Harrer wrote an interesting account of a Tibetan sky burial in his book "Seven years in Tibet". He wrote of a young girl dying of small pox. Men took the corpse to a high plateau and dismembered it, crushing the bones. The birds apparently knew what was going on and gathered all around. The birds…

• hownottowrite · Sep 8, 2014 · Mentions

  …Maugham Twilight in Italy by D.H. Lawrence Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Zen and the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet (Julian Barnes translation) Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer Crawford may well disagree with my thoughts here. He seems to be a pretty devout stoic, but I never met a stoic who didn't have the heart of the mystic beating deep inside. They…

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• germinalphrase · Feb 12, 2015 · Mentions

  If you liked "Into Thin Air" you should read "The White Spider" about Heinreich Harrer (who was the inspiration for Brat Pitt's character in "Seven Years in Tibet")

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• thesigil · Apr 15, 2014 · Mentions

  …way you can explain why you didn't think of The Godfather even though you know it is a great book. Let us say you thought about Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix, Surely You're Joking Mr.Feynman and Seven years in Tibet. You have just finished one book in the series of Harry Potter and you are not interested in reading fiction again, so eliminate that, then you are only left with Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman and…

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