Heinrich Harrer’s Seven Years in Tibet reviewed – archive, October 1953
16 October 1953: An account of the Austrian climber’s escape from a British prison in India, crossing the Himalayas to Tibet and becoming a tutor to the Dalai Lama
Seven Years in Tibet, By Heinrich Harrer. Hart-Davis. Pp 222, 16s.
Tibet and the Tibetans, By Tsung-lien Shen and Shen-chi Liu. Cumberlege for Stanford University Press. Pp, x, 99, 40s.
“Europe wants like anything to go to Tibet; but Tibet has never evinced the slightest desire to go to Europe.” This is Mr Peter Fleming’s remark in his preface to Mr Harrer’s book. Perhaps it is a good thing that the Chinese have renewed their control of Tibet. If they had not done so, travel might have become too common and the western world would have seen the mysteries fade away from its favourite land of romance. Mao Tse-tung has dropped the veil again, and has therefore made Tibet twice as alluring. Europeans may indulge their wish to overcome great hazards visiting it.
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