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Author : Heinrich Harrer
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780007323388
A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer’s escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.
Author : Jean-Jacques Annaud,Becky Johnston,Laurence B. Chollet
Publisher : Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Seven years in Tibet (Motion picture)
ISBN : 1557043426
To coincide with the October film from Mandalay/TriStar, this a beautiful hardcover book features color photos, the script, and story behind the epic movie based on the classic memoir of Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, starring Brad Pitt and David Thewlis. 100 photos & drawings.
Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-02T22:59:00Z
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798822542518
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I had planned to escape from India during the war, but the war suddenly began, and I was taken prisoner. I was then transferred to another camp. With the help of like-minded companions, I collected compasses, money, and maps. #2 We were transferred to another camp in India, and this time we were transported by rail to the biggest POW camp in India. The conditions at the camp changed completely, and we had the Himalayas right in front of us. We thought about escaping over the passes to Tibet. #3 I had originally intended to escape alone, so that I wouldn’t have to consider a companion. But one day, my friend Rolf Magener told me that an Italian general had the same intentions as myself. We quickly joined forces on the basis that I would be responsible for all the planning, and he for the money and equipment. #4 I was often sent out to gather information for the escape plan, and I learned how to climb over the camp’s outer fence and into Marchese’s wing. I cut the wires, and we escaped into the jungle.
Author : Sheldon H. Lu
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824831776
This ambitious work is a multimedia, interdisciplinary study of Chinese modernity in the context of globalization from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sheldon Lu draws on Chinese literature, film, art, photography, and video to broadly map the emergence of modern China in relation to the capitalist world-system in the economic, social, and political realms. Central to his study is the investigation of biopower and body politics, namely, the experience of globalization on a personal level. Lu first outlines the trajectory of the body in modern Chinese literature by focusing on the adventures, pleasures, and sufferings of the male (and female) body in the writings of selected authors. He then turns to avant-garde and performance art, tackling the physical self more directly through a consideration of work that takes the body as its very theme, material, and medium. In an exploration of mass visual culture, Lu analyzes artistic reactions to the multiple, uneven effects of globalization and modernization on both the physical landscape of China and the interior psyche of its citizens. This is followed by an inquiry into contemporary Chinese urban space in popular cinema and experimental photography and art. Examples are offered that capture the daily lives of contemporary Chinese as they struggle to make the transition from the vanishing space of the socialist lifestyle to the new capitalist economy of commodities. Lu reexamines the history and implications of China’s belated integration into the capitalist world system before closing with a postscript that traces the genealogy of the term "postsocialism" and points to the real relevance of the idea for the investigation of everyday life in China in the twenty-first century.
Author : Heinrich Harrer
Publisher : Spiral Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 1921196009
The full autobiography of one of the world's most wellknown adventurers. Heinrich Harrer, traveller, explorerand mountaineer led one of the most extraordinary livesof the twentieth century. He famously spent Seven Yearsin Tibet (published in 1953 and made into the filmstarring Brad Pitt in 1997) and was tutor, mentor and alifelong ......
Author : Heinrich Harrer
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874778883
Recounts how the author an Austrian, escaped from the English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people.
Author : Michael Buckley
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
ISBN : 9781784770655
This new, thoroughly updated edition of Bradt's Tibet encompasses the wider region of ethnic Tibet with more detailed coverage of the Amdo and Kham regions than is found in other guides. It also includes essential information on new border openings and is particularly strong on map data, which is extremely difficult to find in Tibet itself, including new theme maps covering a range of topics, from Tibetan regions to the Three Parallel Rivers UN World Heritage Sites, sacred landscapes, permafrost and major river sources. Bradt's Tibet benefits from years of consistent research. Michael Buckley has been visiting and researching Tibet for more than 30 years and has a raft of books to his name. Thanks to his knowledge and expertise, Bradt's Tibet offers a more extensive language appendix than is found in other guidebooks, plus essential guidelines on cultural etiquette (including a special section on hand gestures to use), local customs and travelling with minimum impact on Tibet's culture and environment. There is also an appendix on fauna and an extensive list of recommended further resources, including books, music, films and even virtual reality Exploring ethnic Tibet independently is a challenge. The 'land of snows' possesses the world's highest peaks (including Everest) and its deepest gorges as well as some of the wildest and roughest road routes in high Asia. Bradt's Tibet provides all the practical information you need to explore ethnic Tibet independently, whether motoring, mountain-biking or trekking. Tibet has always fascinated travellers and armchair travellers because it is so difficult to access due to its remoteness and extreme altitude. Now, under Chinese rule, Tibet is a sensitive destination for Westerners. Visitors needs all the information that they can lay their hands on-and this guidebook provides plenty. With flight routes and rail access to Tibet expanding, and new border crossings opening, Michael Buckley and Bradt's Tibet provide all of the information you need to make the most of a trip.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Lhasa (China)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005126243
An account of an Austrian mountain climber's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War Two and his twenty-one-month journey through the Himalayas to safety in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet.
Author : Peter Aufschnaiter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Tibet (China)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114354470
This is a highly illustrated, personal account of Peter Aufschnaiter's eight-year sojourn in Tibet, characterized by his empathy for and understanding of Tibetan culture and enriched by his photographs and sketches. The text is a sensitive record of the Tibetans and their way of life and ends of the eve of the Chinese invasion that was to wreak such irreversible damage to this unique culture.
Author : Barry Sautman,June Teufel Dreyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315289991
The subject of Tibet is highly controversial, and Tibet, as a political entity, is defined differently from source to source and audience to audience. The editors of this path-breaking, multidisciplinary study have gathered some of the leading scholars in Tibetan and ethnic studies to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Tibet question. "Contemporary Tibet" explores essential themes and issues concerning modern Tibet. It presents fresh material from various political viewpoints and data from original surveys and field research. The contributors consider such topics as representations and sovereignty, economic development and political conditions, the exile movement and human rights, historical legacies and international politics, identity issues and the local society. The individual chapters provide historical background as well as a general framework to examine Tibet's present situation in world politics, the relationship with China and the West, and prospects for the future.
Author : Heinrich Harrer
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Tibet (China)
ISBN : IND:30000056682101
The bestselling author of "Seven Years in Tibet" presents this compelling mix of history, religion, and travel writing, which bears witness to the suffering and perseverance of the ancient civilization under Chinese rule.
Author : J. Daccache,B. Valeriano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137290489
Using film as a lens though which we can witness the global transformations in politics, economy, culture, and communication, this book analyzes Hollywood's shift in its depictions of China and Tibet.
Author : Domenico Losurdo
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498502207
We know of the blood and tears provoked by the projects of transformation of the world through war or revolution. Starting from the essay published in 1921 by Walter Benjamin, twentieth century philosophy has been committed to the criticism of violence, even when it has claimed to follow noble ends. But what do we know of the dilemmas, of the “betrayals,” of the disappointments and tragedies which the movement of non-violence has suffered? This book tells a fascinating history: from the American Christian organizations in the first decades of the nineteenth century who wanted to eliminate slavery and war in a non-violent way, to the protagonists of movements—Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Capitini, M. L. King, the Dalai Lama—who either for idealism or for political calculation flew the flag of non-violence, up to the leaders of today’s “color revolutions.”
Author : Bary Dowling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:221635104
Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:314580382