Lost Horizon

Author: James Hilton
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Publish Date: 1999-05-01
Features: "The Aspiration of You and Me, the Aspiration of the World," the Shangri-La in the heart. With the publication of James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon in 1933, this place, a harmonious and incredibly beautiful realm combining blue skies, white clouds, snow-capped mountains, meadows, lakes, and livestock, became the essence of Shangri-La, and at the same time, it ignited the global quest for Shangri-La! In the early 1930s of this century, a violent uprising broke out in Basok, a country in the South Asian subcontinent. Consul Conway and others from the British consulate in the area quickly evacuated Basok aboard a small plane. During the flight, they discovered that the plane had deviated from its planned route, flying northward along the Himalayas from west to east. The plane was mysteriously hijacked. As a result, Conway and the others entered an utterly mysterious and idyllic paradise—Shangri-La.