num_pages: 330
description: Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people.
language: English
title: Seven Years in Tibet
titlecomplete: Seven Years in Tibet
characters: Dalai Lama XIV, Peter Aufschnaiter, Heinrich Harrer
genres: Adventure, China, Classics, History, Travel, Buddhism, Asia, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 23816
places: Tibet, Lhasa, Tibet
publisher: Tarcher