Seven Years in Tibet - Couverture souple

Harrer, Heinrich

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0006550924 ISBN 13 : 9780006550921

Editeur : Flamingo, 1997

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

'Vijay Seshadri's poems are wittily alive to everything, continually quick and surprising, expertly turned.' Richard Wilbur Grave and witty, classical and contemporary, The Disappearances brings together the best of Vijay Seshadri's poetry, drawn from The Long Meadow (2004) and Wild Kingdom (1996). The award-winning poet, described as 'a writer of subtle, elastic and unblinking intelligence', is being published in India for the first time. 'Vijay Seshadri tracks 'the signature stinks and blood trails' of our species its squalor and splendor, seen here with both charity and rage exhilaratingly in this book. The poems have both electric energy and gravitas. Short and long poems (which is rare) equally have authority. The distinction with which this new voice deciphers the 'Rosetta stone' of our 'defective mythologies' is unmistakable, and absorbing.' Frank Bidart 'These are poems full of musical light and dark wit. Their cadences are wonderfully poised between regret and discovery. Vijay Seshadri is a lyric poet who can mix elegy and affirmation within a few stanzas of one another. He makes the landscape and the cityscape into one challenging and heartbreaking place where the old transformations of language can still happen.' --Eaven Boland

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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. Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was climbing in the Himalayas when war broke out in Europe. He was imprisoned by the British in India but succeeded in escaping and fled to Tibet. Settling in Lhasa, the Forbidden City, where he became a friend and tutor to the Dalai Lama, Heinrich Harrer spent seven years gaining a more profound understanding of Tibet and the Tibetans th

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