An edition of Out of This World (1950)

Out of This World

Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet

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An edition of Out of This World (1950)

Out of This World

Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet

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In 1949, renowned travel writer Lowell Thomas, Jr., along with his father, the American writer and broadcaster best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous, was invited by the Tibetan government to make a film there, in the hope that their reports would help persuade the U.S. government to defend Tibet against the Chinese. The trip lasted 400 days, and the father-and-son team were the last Westerners to reach Lhasa before the Chinese invasion and occupation.

The trek garnered worldwide attention when Lowell Thomas, Jr. succeeded in getting his father safely across the Himalayas to India after a serious accident on a 17,000-foot pass.

Out of This World, which was first published in 1950 and became a bestseller, tells the story of this journey that the author describes as “a climax to his father’s lifetime of adventure” and “probably the greatest travel adventure I will ever have”.

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Greystone Press
Language
English
Pages
320

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
915.15
Library of Congress
DS785 .T45

The Physical Object

Format
Hardback
Pagination
320 p.
Number of pages
320

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6071711M
Internet Archive
outofthisworldac00thom
LCCN
50010918
OCLC/WorldCat
411662
Library Thing
463173

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