![]() As the publisher, we unconditionally guarantee that all books are authentic and the condition is As New (NOS). The top board is incised with a Tibetan good-luck charm cut by monks of the Tibetan Refugee Center in Darjeeling, India. Protecting the cover is a cotton sleeve, known as a pi-chu, which is encased front and back by a pair of magnolia wood boards, or lepshing. ![]() ![]() The cover is pure Bure silk, imported from India. We have bound our books in many extraordinary styles, but none so authentically exotic as Seven Years in Tibet. Six gravure plates made from photographs by the author. Seven Years in Tibet offers rare insights into Tibet's mysticism and beauty which Harrer's photogravures, produced from the original negatives, further illuminate. He and the Dalai Lama remained lifelong friends. Harrer became the unofficial secular tutor to the Dalai Lama when His Holiness was fourteen years old. After his escape from a British prisoner-of-war camp in India, Heinrich Harrer spent seven years among the Tibetan People and recounted his experiences in this memoir called by the Indian novelist and travel writer Santa Rama Rau one of the grandest and most incredible adventure stories I have ever read. : Seven Years In Tibet : Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, Lhapka Tsamchoe, B.D. ![]()
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