6/27/2023 0 Comments The lost horizon james hilton![]() ![]() ![]() The pilot is near-death and instructs the survivors to head toward Shangri-La, a hidden lamasery in the western Himalayas. Being evacuated during an Indian revolution, a plane is taken over and then crashes in Tibet. He regained his memory long enough to tell the tale. In Berlin, two old school chums get into a conversation with a pilot about a missing British ambassador in Afghanistan, who turned up in some Chinese hospital ward with amnesia. And that’s why I shouldn’t read books from around this time. Even the accounts of the lamasery with all its mystery bored me. Unfortunately, while the word “Shangri-La” conjurs images of awesomeness, this book seemed to lag every few pages. ![]() Lost Horizons may be familiar to most as the story of how a team of men found the fictional Shangri-La, a wonderful utopia high in the mountains of Tibet. Not that it’s that awful of a story, but I really shouldn’t read too many more books from the 1930s. And the cover announced that it was “the very 1st paperback novel” and how could I ignore that? It was caked in ice, but with a little cleaning up, was mostly undestroyed by the weather. Having not decided what to read next, I was amused to find a frozen paperback in the parking lot at work. ![]()
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