Out of This World: Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet

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Summary: You'll travel with them
Review: A trip through Himalaya for Lowell Thomas Sr. and Jr. -the latter wrote this book of memories. They've reached the capital Lhasa, met His Holiness the Dalai Lama, but especially experienced and documented the tibetan life, before the Chinese invasion. Lowell jr. clearly has been forever marked by this priviledged experience. As well as by the meeting with Henrich Harrer, the man who spent Seven years on the roof of the world, tibetan among tibetans. Many pictures, diary-style. It's not a scientific book. However, not too brief explanations on tibetan life are given. I got the original version (early fifties) thanks to Amazon/Big Star Books. Fully satisfied for rapidity and quality of the item. I do suggest it for those who want to travel tasting the thrill of discovery. A taste of adventure, heroism, human solidariety. All things that made Thomas and Harrer never be the same again.