4 Things You Should Do When Wandering in Shangri-La 4 Things You Should Do When Wandering in Shangri-La 4 Things You Should Do When Wandering in Shangri-La 01/20/2016769 Summary The Shangri-La is the paradise-like land that people always pursue. Have you ever dreamed of travelling to somewhere similar to the paradise and purify your minds? The original pursuit for the pure paradise, Shangri-La, appeared in a book named Lost Horizon, which is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton. It is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet, the west part of China. Then the image of paradise gradually took up. In Shangri-La, the crystal blue sky, the fabulous scenery of pure white cloud, the wide green prairie, the divine snow mountains and so on always seizes people’s attention an d dreams. Located in the southwest of China, Shangri-La is noted as the perfect residence for people especially Tibetans.

There is an ancient town over 1,300 years called “Du Ke Zong”, as well as “the Moon Light City” in Tibetan. Every time you raise your head, you will see the holy symbol, the prayer wheels, of Tibet, also a lucky icon if you turn it three loops. Besides, people there also have their special celebration, Guo Zhuang Dance, for the significant festivals. When you step onto the sacred land, you may try four things as follows to fully appreciate the majesty of Shangri-La: 1. Pilgrimage to the Songzanlin Temple. Songzanlin Temple is the largest Tibetan Buddhism temple in Yunnan province. In 1674 A.D., the Fifth Dalai Lama personally petitioned to the Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi for the site to guide the construction of the Songzanlin Temple, well-known as "Little Potala Palace". There are historic treasures exhibited generation by generation, including the Fifth Dalai Lama and eight gold statues of the Buddha Sakyamuni from the Seventh Dalai Lama period, Thangka painted by colorful fine golden juice, gold lights, and other splendid beauties worthy of careful appreciation. 2.

Appreciate the classical landscape of the Fish Drunk By Azalea in the Pu Da Cuo National Forest Park. Pu Da Cuo National Forest Park is the first national park in China. there are great mirror-like lakes on the mountains, beautiful pasture grass rich in water, wide wetlands of blooming flowers, and birds and animals often infested with forests around the area. Every summer, the azalea, reputedly slightly toxic, about the Bita Lake grow prosperously, and attract many fishes, once they eat the azalea petals on the lake, they will be just like drunk-like and float on the lake, the lake will appear a great spectacle, " the Fish Drunk By Azalea". 3. Overlook the Meili Snow Mountain at the Feilai Temple Meili Snow Mountain, also known as the Snow Mountain Prince, stands with 13 mountains over the average elevation of 6,000 meters and known as the "Prince of thirteen peaks". The main mountain, Kawagebo, peaks up to 6,740 meters above the sea level, is the highest peak in Yunnan.

Feilai Temple, next to the east of Meili Snow Mountain, is the perfect place to overlook the Meili Snow Mountain. Under the Kawagebo, the glaciers, moraines throughout overwhelm people most, among which the Mingyong glaciers are the most spectacular, extending from the 5500 meters above down to the altitude of 2700 meters in the forest zone. 4. Take a visit to the heaven on earth---Yubeng village “If you don’t go to the heaven, you can go to Yubeng village”. The essence of Shangri-La locates in Meili Snow Mountain, and the essence of Meili Snow Mountain lies in Yubeng village. Sited in the Deqing County of Yunnan province, Yubeng village bears the meaning “the Treasure Basin”. Though the transportation is inconvenient, the peaceful village keeps its primitive atmosphere and the original beauty, surrounded by snow mountains, valleys, streams and other abundant natural resources. If you want to explore the mystery of Shangri-La and dig out the primitive majesty of nature, you may follow us and join our Full Day Hightlights Tour in Shangri-La and experience the local life there.

Our Customers Also Favoured Lost Horizon: James Hilton: 9788087888056: Amazon.com: Books By sirrom99 on August 9, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback When I was a teenager, I went to see the movie Lost Horizon seven times. During my 74 years, I read the book many times. After I retired, I made four trips to that part of the world, and spent many months each time searching for that wonderful Shangri-La dream. If you have never read Hilton's classic, and you are a person with an optimistic spiritual outlook, then The Lost Horizon is a must for you. If you read it and want to believe it, then you should visit Burma and the temples of the ancient city of Pagon, and then spend time in the three kingdoms of the Himalayas: Nepal, Ladakh and Bhutan, in that order. You will be moved to tell others, or write about your spiritual experience. I was so moved. May your days be filled with the magic of life.

Sirrom Shangri-La | Tzu149's Weblog Shangri-La September 26, 2008 by tzu149 Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton. In the book, “Shangri-La” is a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise but particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia—a permanently happy land, isolated from the outside world. In the novel Lost Horizon, the people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal, living years beyond the normal lifespan. The word also evokes the imagery of exoticism of the Orient. The story of Shangri-La is based on the concept of Shambhala, a mystical city in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton. It is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet.

Several locations in the Buddhist Himalaya between northern India and Tibet have claimed to be the basis for Hilton’s legend, largely to attract tourism. In China, Tao Qian of the Jin Dynasty described a Shangri-La in his work Story of the Peach Blossom Valley (Chinese: 桃花源記, pinyin: Táohuā Yuán Jì) n modern China, the Zhongdian country was renamed to 香格里拉县 (Xiānggélǐlā, Shanri-La in Chinese) in 2001, to attract tourists. The legendary Kun Lun Mountains in Tibet offer other possible Shangri-La valleys. Being an isolated green valley surrounded by mountains, enclosed on the western end of the Himalayas, it closely matches the description in the novel.

A Shangri-La resort in the nearby Skardu valley is a popular tourist attraction.”] A popularly believed inspiration for Shangri-La is the Hunza Valley in northern Pakistan, close to the Tibetan border, which Hilton visited a few years before Lost Horizon was published.[2 Today, various places claim the title, such as parts of southern Kham in southwestern Yunnan province, including the tourist destinations of Lijiang and Zhongdian. Places like Sichuan and Tibet also claim the real Shangri-La was in its territory. In 2001, Tibet Autonomous Region put forward a proposal that the three regions optimise all Shangri-la tourism resources and promote them as one. After failed attempts to establish a China Shangri-la Ecological Tourism Zone in 2002 and 2003, government representatives of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces and Tibet Autonomous Region signed a declaration of cooperation in 2004. Also in 2001, Zhongdian County in northwestern Yunnan officially renamed itself Shangri-La County.

Bhutan, which was until now isolated from outside world and has its unique form of Tibetan Buddhism, has been hailed as the last Shangri-La. Another place that has been thought to have inspired the concept of Shangri-La is the Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon. TV Presenter and Historian Michael Wood suggests that the legendary Shangri-La is the abandoned city of Tsaparang and its two great temples that were once home to the Kings of Guge in modern Tibet. Later on, Chinese Government assert formally that this mysterious place is a small town of Yunnan Province known as Zhong Dian in 2001 through investigate and verify (renamed as Shangri-la county now). Shangri-la is the fairyland of human world, there is extraordinary beautiful scenery, she is as beautiful as young Chinese girl. Shambhala “To Conway, seeing it first, it might have been a vision . . . It was indeed a strange and incredible sight. A group of colored pavilions clung to the mountainside with the . . . chance delicacy of flower-petals impaled upon a crag. It was superb and exquisite.

An austere emotion carried the eye upward from milk-blue roofs to the gray rock bastion above . . . Beyond that, in a dazzling pyramid, soared the snow slopes of Karakal.” Such was Conway’s first glimpse of Shangri-La, the hidden lamasery in Tibet as described in James Hilton’s novel, Lost Horizon. Lost Horizon: James Hilton: 9780671541484: Amazon.com: Books By sirrom99 on August 9, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback When I was a teenager, I went to see the movie Lost Horizon seven times. During my 74 years, I read the book many times. After I retired, I made four trips to that part of the world, and spent many months each time searching for that wonderful Shangri-La dream. If you have never read Hilton's classic, and you are a person with an optimistic spiritual outlook, then The Lost Horizon is a must for you.

If you read it and want to believe it, then you should visit Burma and the temples of the ancient city of Pagon, and then spend time in the three kingdoms of the Himalayas: Nepal, Ladakh and Bhutan, in that order. You will be moved to tell others, or write about your spiritual experience. I was so moved. May your days be filled with the magic of life. Sirrom By OAKSHAMAN on December 29, 2004 Format: Mass Market Paperback What struck me most about this book is how non-dated it was for having been written in 1933. First of all, the story starts in Afghanistan during an airlift to evacuate foreign nationals during an anti-western revolution. Next, the main characters are essentially skyjacked to an unknown destination against their will for unknown purposes. As for the characters, they seem very familiar and contemporary also: a world-weary and burned-out government bureaucrat, a gung-ho and impatient young military officer, a business man that has stolen over 100 million dollars from investors through stock fraud, and a fundamentalist Christian missionary that believes in one "true" religion and holds all others in contempt.

There is also the conviction among several of these characters that globally "the whole game's going to pieces." However, there is also something hauntingly timeless about this story. It occurs to me that the hidden civilization of Shangri-La is based on the mythical kingdom of Shambhala, where immortal masters live that look after the evolution and welfare of mankind. The great mountain of Karacul that looms over the valley also seems symbolic of Mt. Meru- the axis of the cosmos- and where the gods are reputed to dwell. It is certainly no coincidence that most of the people that find Shangri-La are the world weary- and the journey comes close to killing them. That would seem to be a metaphor for spiritual enlightenment. For this is what the lucky and the worthy find in Shangri-La, all the time in the world, or rather out of the world, for contemplation, preservation of all the worthy attainments of the human race, and the pursuit of wisdom. Sounds pretty close to heaven to me.... An interesting side note is the fact that _Lost Horizon_ was the first paperback title ever published by Pocket Books in 1939. This particular edition bears the same classic cover art as the original.

By Gary F. Taylor HALL OF FAME TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE VOICE on November 28, 2001 Format: Hardcover|Verified Purchase The story of a group of people who survive an airplane crash in Tibet and find shelter at a mysterious monastery is extremely well known, but unlike most novels, Lost Horizon is less about its characters and their siutation--interesting though those elements may be--than it is about their thoughts and ideas. Written as it was on eve of World War II, these thoughts and ideas center upon developing a way of life that preserves, rather than destroys, that which is finest in both humanity and the world in general. The novel is elegantly and simply written and possesses tremendous atmosphere. Although enjoyable as a purely "fun" read, it is also thought provoking, and the thoughts it provokes linger long after the book is laid aside. I can not imagine any one not being moved by the book, both emotionally and intellectually, regardless of their background or interests. If such a person exists, I do not think I would care to meet them.

Although James Hilton wrote a number of worthy novels, Lost Horizon is the novel for which he is best remembered, a great popular success when first published and a genuine masterpiece of 20th Century literature. By Dan Barksdale III on July 9, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback When I read this book, I was transformed! I could actually breath the fresh, cold, Himalayan air that Conway and his entourage and the people of Shangri-La breathed. The language the novel is written in is beautiful and picturesque. When Conway and his companions flee the warring land they come from, (in a way) they find themselves hijacked, whisked away to paradise: Shangri-La, a place where the air is clean and the living is natural and spiritual and, "moderate." Where people live naturally long lives, hundreds of years, in peace, in love, at one with nature. Hilton's book wisely illustrates that some can never be happy in paradise, they must go on and on searching, but too incredulous to ever actually find anything.

In Shangri-La the people, the good, natural people await the destruction of the "outside world," which will surely occur at it's own hand sooner or later as long as people rule themselves with war, lack of moderation, hatred, and a lack of regard for the spiritual nature of humanity. Then the people of Shangri-La will spread the paradise to the far reaches of earth. No doubt, James Hilton has read not only the Bible, but many other spiritual books, because I find myself thinking of Buddism, Judaism, Christianity (as opposed to Christendom), Hinduism, and other Eastern religions and forms of spirituality and well as Western religion and forms of spirituality. What an inspiring view. The "outside" world will eventually destroy itself if humanity continues on the road of "unintelligent leadership," war, hatred, discrimination, excess, selfishness, lack of moderation, lack of respect and care for nature, lack of conservation, lack of respect for self, and lack of respect and care for other human beings and all our fellow animals. The question is: Will there be a "Shangri-La" there to save us? Do we really want to take that chance?

Lost Horizon: James Hilton: 9781618950109: Literature: Amazon Canada By Charles King on Sept. 5 2016 Format: Hardcover I was given this book to read about ten years ago. I had no idea what it was about but once I started reading it I was immediately pulled in. Years later it still holds as my favorite book. The story is about some travelers who crash in the mountains and attempt to return to civilization on foot. It is incredibly powerful. I think the best way to enjoy it is with little fore-knowledge of the story so that you can experience it all as new and fresh as things unfold. I'm not sure why I am so drawn to early 20th century literature but I have a feeling this book is a big part of that. In addition to the well written story I found this book, unexpectedly, changed my outlook on life. Maybe it was because I was in my early 20s at the time but I think that there's something deeper to this story than what you get, it's almost a guide to living in itself. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again. By mmariah on June 15 2016 Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase At first I was intrigued by the book, but as I sped through the pages of whimsical fantasy I was left with a lot of unanswered questions. There were many positives though, and at times you could almost imagine yourself living in an environment where no one ever ages, and everything is wine and roses To be honest I expected Conway and his entourage to go back to the plateau and fly that plane out of there, so was surprised that they actually left two of them behind. In the end I could really only give it three stars . Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again. By Donald Mitchell #1 HALL OF FAMETOP 100 REVIEWER on Dec 1 2003 Format: School & Library Binding In the depths of the worldwide economic depression as the war drumbeats began in Germany, James Hilton wrote a quirky, imaginative book about the potential to escape the harsh reality.

In so doing, he caused each reader since then to wonder what the right balance of tranquility and challenge really is. Like the best books about possible utopias, Lost Horizon leaves much to the reader's imagination. Undoubtedly, you will conjure up solutions to the riddles left open by the author that will be especially pleasing to you. Although the book is clearly set in the 30's with a British perspective, many of the themes struck me as universal. As the book opens, there's an intriguing prologue that sets just the right tone for the story. You are to read a manuscript about the experiences of one Hugh "Glory" Conway, H.M. consul. The manuscript opens with airplane hijacking that seemed all too realistic. Quickly, the hijacking turns into a surprising adventure as the passengers unexpectedly arrive in a little known part of Tibet and are escorted to Shangri-La, a lamasery sitting atop a hidden valley of peace and tranquility. While there, they await an opportunity to arrange passage with the bearers who are bringing a shipment that is expected in 60 days. Conway, however, learns the secrets of Shangri-La and finds himself faced with an extraordinary set of choices.

To me, Shangri-La is a metaphor for the mental tranquility that many spiritual practices can bring. For anyone who has enjoyed these practices, you will know that it can be tempting to withdraw totally into them. To do so can be delicious, especially for the frazzled soul. At the same time, we are made of flesh, blood and boil with emotions that seek their venting through action. How can the two instincts be reconciled? Read more › 2 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again. By Jayne MacManus on Nov. 15 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback This is one of those maddening concept books like "Brave New World" that you should read once in your life, but you're very, very annoyed that it isn't better fleshed-out. "Lost Horizon" is about a group of four people hijacked and flown to a remote, mountain lamasery somewhere in Tibet or China, to the fictional (and now legendary) Shangri-La. The unofficial leader of the four is Conway, a British embassy relations-sort of man.

Rather than being outraged, Conway is content in the serene and spiritual surroundings. *** None of the female characters ever develop beyond a paragraph or two, and the scope of the plot only involves arriving at and possibly leaving Shangri-La. *** The prologue and epilogue to the story, however, are very well done and extend the mystery of Shangri-La. Does this place truly exist? Are people able to prolong their lives in spiritual and intellectual enlightenment? Was Conway just spaced out on herbal drugs or perhaps suckered by cult fanatics? *** The book has no final answers. Its main goal is to detach people from the modern sense of time and the often unhappy pursuits we impose on ourselves and each other. But the otherworld retreat of Shangri-La isn't perfect either, and it's more interesting to consider the place from the outside than to be stuck in it. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again. By Gary F. Taylor on Nov.

28 2001 Format: Hardcover The story of a group of people who survive an airplane crash in Tibet and find shelter at a mysterious monastery is extremely well known, but unlike most novels, Lost Horizon is less about its characters and their siutation--interesting though those elements may be--than it is about their thoughts and ideas. Written as it was on eve of World War II, these thoughts and ideas center upon developing a way of life that preserves, rather than destroys, that which is finest in both humanity and the world in general. The novel is elegantly and simply written and possesses tremendous atmosphere. Although enjoyable as a purely "fun" read, it is also thought provoking, and the thoughts it provokes linger long after the book is laid aside. I can not imagine any one not being moved by the book, both emotionally and intellectually, regardless of their background or interests. If such a person exists, I do not think I would care to meet them. Although James Hilton wrote a number of worthy novels, Lost Horizon is the novel for which he is best remembered, a great popular success when first published and a genuine masterpiece of 20th Century literature. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again. Lost Horizon | Download eBook PDF/EPUB Publisher by : Pickle Partners Publishing Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read : 89 Total Download : 119 File Size : 54,6 Mb Description : First published in 1933, this novel by award-winning author James Hilton tells the story of Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service who finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, an Eden-like valley high in the Himalayas in Tibet. Said to have been inspired by reading the National Geographic Magazine articles of a botanist and ethnologist who explored the southwestern Chinese provinces and Tibetan borderlands, the name “Shangri-La” has become a by-word for a mythical utopia, a permanently happy land, isolated from the world, and one that captivated the world’s imagination—from Roosevelt naming his Maryland presidential retreat “Shangri-La” to the Zhongdian mountain region of Southwest China being renamed Shangri-La (Xianggelila).

The novel won James Hilton the Hawthornden Prize in 1934 and was also immortalized in a movie version in 1937 by influential director Frank Capra. “Hilton’s premise strikes a deep chord in today’s ‘everything is relative’ society. His utopia retains all its charm and, in his creation of Shangri-La, he added something permanently to the language”—Guardian “Lost Horizon introduced the world to a Tibetan paradise where people live extraordinarily long lives of peace, harmony and wisdom.

Expertly plotted and deftly written, Hilton’s book suggests mysteries without spelling them out - and leaves us wanting more”—New York Times “James Hilton invented the name Shangri-La for a paradise on earth in a book that captured the imagination of a public dealing with financial hardships and the threat of Nazism”—Observer “The important thing to note about this very fine novel—the tale of an adventure in Tibet—is that it is unusual and the product of a first-class mind...a wildly exciting story, nightmare, fantasy, or what you will”—Daily Express Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read : 38 Total Download : 862 File Size : 49,9 Mb Description : Flying out of India, a light aircraft is hi-jacked and flown into the high Tibetan Himalayas. The few passengers on board anxiously await their fate, among them Conway, a talented British consul. But on landing they are unexpectedly conducted to a remote valley, a legendary paradise of peace and beauty, known as Shangri-La. Have they been kidnapped? Can they escape? And do they even want to?

From the author of Goodbye Mr Chips, this is the epic adventure story of literature's most entrancing utopia and one of our most enduring literary mysteries. Publisher by : Open Road Media Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read : 22 Total Download : 636 File Size : 46,9 Mb Description : James Hilton’s bestselling adventure novel about a military man who stumbles on the world’s greatest hope for peace deep in Tibet: Shangri-La. Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British diplomat serving in Afghanistan and facing war yet again—this time, a civil conflict forces him to flee the country by plane. When his plane crashes high in the Himalayas, Conway and the other survivors are found by a mysterious guide and led to a breathtaking discovery: the hidden valley of Shangri-La. Kept secret from the world for more than two hundred years, Shangri-La is like paradise—a place whose inhabitants live for centuries amid the peace and harmony of the fertile valley.

But when the leader of the Shangri-La monastery falls ill, Conway and the others must face the daunting prospect of returning home to a world about to be torn open by war. Thrilling and timeless, Lost Horizon is a masterpiece of modern fiction, and one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century. Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read : 51 Total Download : 551 File Size : 46,6 Mb Description : This carefully crafted ebook: “LOST HORIZON - The Legend of Shangri-La” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, and particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the outside world.

In the novel, Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, whose inhabitants enjoy unheard-of longevity. Among the book's themes is an allusion to the possibility of another cataclysmic world war brewing. It is said to have been inspired at least in part by accounts of travels in Tibetan borderlands, published in National Geographic by the explorer and botanist Joseph Rock. The remote communities he visited, such as Muli, show many similarities to the fictional Shangri-La. James Hilton (1900-1954) was an English novelist and Hollywood screenplayer best remembered for his best-sellers Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips.

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One of these attempts would be the 1931 invasion of Manchuria by the Japanese army, and the establishment of the puppet state Manchukuo, another would be the 1937 Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which brought about the beginning of the second Sino-Japanese War. However, I do not consider Lost Horizon as the portrayal of a paradise: in my opinion, the movie perpetuates stereotypes about Asians. This was certainly true in the 1930s, but this effect may still show today for many people still hold the same stereotypes today. They include the idea that Asians are followers, that they belong to an inferior culture, that they have accents, and so on. The idea that Asians are followers is most evident in the leading role of white people like the High Lama, Father Perrault, and Robert Conway, a little less evident if one looks at the fact that Sondra, a white woman, is the school teacher of the Asian children, and, therefore, a leader, too. However, most leaders are men. We soon find out that Chang, who first appears to be a leader, is, in reality, only a puppet of the High Lama.

Except Chang, who is, in a way, a perfect imitation of a white man and a product of Father Perrault, Asians hardly speak or act at all as individuals. This idea of whites leading and Asians following is also apparent in the music played in the background of many scenes: tranquil and monotonous music is used to assert Asian passiveness, whereas loud music is used to emphasize white activeness. All seems to indicate, moreover, that there is a definite need for a white leader in Shangri-La. It seems unimaginable for Father Perrault to make an Asian, even his creation Chang who is the imitation of a white man, a leader. He rather takes immeasurable efforts to lead Conway, a real white, to Shangri-La. Author by : Bardic Web Writers Languange : en Publisher by : Lulu Press, Inc Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read : 71 Total Download : 630 File Size : 44,9 Mb Description : An'Thaya D'Riel Alcarin - fierce Warrior Princess and Amazon Queen - for centuries she loved only one man, util he broker her heart one to many times.

Her life is filled with pain and confusion, but still she cannot seem to let him go. A single evening alters her fate and a choice offers itself - which path will she take? The Elen Prince who has owned her heart for millennia? Or a Dragon Emperor who has lost his horizon... Callan caught An'Thaya by the hand as she turned, and took two more steps, crowding her between him and the wall near the door. "So, I'll ask you again..." Callan's voice dropped to a gritty whisper as his fingers found their way to An'Thaya's jaw and tilted her head up, "Why are you here?" An archy of electricity shot through her and their bondmarks flared in unison. A small whimper escaped the Amazon before she could stop it, and emerald eyes met his blind gaze. "I don't know," she whispered. Note: The reading order for our novels on our website under the Bardic Web Book Store. Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read : 49 Total Download : 139 File Size : 41,7 Mb Description : Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.

Commentary (books not included). Pages: 349. Not illustrated. Chapters: 1933 Novels, Lost Horizon, Down and Out in Paris and London, Murder Must Advertise, Imitation of Life, the Hound of Death, the Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Lord Edgware Dies, the Disinherited, the Shape of Things to Come, Truppenf hrung, Sweet Danger, Heavy Weather, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, the Mass Psychology of Fascism, Joseph and His Brothers, in Praise of Shadows, Sheppey, Company K, Katow, the Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Man's Fate, the Box of Delights, Miss Lonelyhearts, Flush: a Biography, the Flying Classroom, Love on the Dole, 1933 in Literature, the Brighter Buccaneer, the Autobiography of Alice B.

Toklas, Testament of Youth, Once More the Saint, the Kennel Murder Case, the Password to Larkspur Lane, God's Little Acre, the Werewolf of Paris, When Worlds Collide, to a God Unknown, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Marlborough: His Life and Times, Tropic Moon, Pity Is Not Enough, the Forbidden Territory, Tarzan and the City of Gold, Lamsa Bible, the American Gun Mystery, the Siamese Twin Mystery, England, Their England, My Life and Hard Times, Pat of Silver Bush, Winner Take Nothing, the Pilgrim's Regress, English Missal, the Story About Ping, the Sign of the Twisted Candles, Bengal Nights, Winter Holiday, From a View to a Death, the Great Illusion, the Winding Stair and Other Poems, the Man Who Awoke, Metro, Spartacus, Hag's Nook, the Devil in Velvet, Famous First Facts, the Green Round, the Mad Hatter Mystery, We Are the Living, Grand Canary, the Mis-Education of the Negro, Doctor Dolittle's Return, La Chatte, Footprints Under the Window, the Bowstring Murders, the Forbidden Tree, Ojo in Oz

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Lost Horizon: James Hilton's Tale of Shangri-La - Read expert review at epinions.com Lost Horizon: James Hilton's Tale of Shangri-La Review by AdaDavis Cons: Written in 1933, so the writing is a bit dated. Have you ever dreamed of a place Far away from it all, Where the winter winds will never blow, Living things have room to grow; And the sound of guns Doesn?t pound in your ears anymore? From the movie Lost Horizon, 1973 Shangri-La. Utopia; the perfect, lost paradise. People who have never heard of author James Hilton or his book Lost Horizon will recognize the name of Shangri-La. Maybe from one of the movies ? good (1937), so-so (1973), or the host of Really Bad Rip-Offs made in recent years. Even the best adaptation simply doesn?t do justice to the original ? James Hilton?s book, published in 1933. Lost Horizon begins in 1932 at Templehof Airfield, Berlin, with the meeting of four Englishmen. In the usual way of small talk, they reminisce about old times and mutual acquaintances.

Watching the planes on the runway, their exchange naturally leads to talk of airplanes, airfields, and mysteries tied to them. Sanders, the pilot, refers to a strange incident the year before as they were evacuating Baskul (India, or Afghanistan, take your pick.) One of the small planes had been stolen, along with its four passengers, and neither plane nor passengers were heard from again. One passenger, Hugh Conway, had been a member of the Consular Service, and an acquaintance of two of the Englishmen ? the unnamed narrator and a novelist named Rutherford. Later, Rutherford refers back to the stolen plane, then admits that he has seen and talked to Conway after the time of his supposed kidnapping - in Chung-Kiang, China. Conway had confirmed the story of the plane hijacked at Baskul, then had gone on to relate the strange and fascinating story of what happened afterward. Rutherford, always the writer/journalist, had written down the narrative. Whether any of it was true, he could not determine. Conway had had ?mental lapses? from his time in the trenches of The Great War, and the whole tale just might be a product of his fevered imagination.

Rutherford passed his manuscript to our unnamed narrator, a neurologist. Though his reasons are never stated directly, Rutherford apparently wanted a professional opinion on the mental state of Conway, as well as another opinion on the probability of Conway?s tale. According to the manuscript, Conway?s plane had been stolen at Baskul on the 20th of May, 1931. The four passengers were not even aware that the pilot was an imposter until the plane failed to land at Peshawar. Instead, it refueled at a remote location and headed toward Tibet. Inquiries to the pilot were met with the barrel of a gun, and silence. Somewhere in the vast uncharted region southwest of Llasa, the plane crashed in the mountains, mortally wounding the pilot. Before he died, the pilot directed the passengers to an old lamasery at a place called Shangri-La. Struggling through the snow and punishing winds, the four passengers eventually run into a group of travelers from the lamasery, and are guided through the high passes to safety at Shangri-La.

To Conway, seeing it first, it might have been a vision fluttering out of that solitary rhythm in which lack of oxygen had encompassed all of his faculties. It was, indeed, a strange and half-incredible sight. A group of colored pavilions clung to the mountainside with none of the grim deliberation of a Rhineland castle, but rather with the chance delicacy of flower-petals impaled upon a crag. It was superb and exquisite. ? Hardly less an enticement was the downward prospect, for the mountain wall continued to drop, nearly perpendicularly, into a cleft that could only have been the result of some cataclysm in the far past. The floor of the valley, hazily distant, welcomed the eye with greenness; sheltered from the winds, and surveyed rather than dominated by the lamasery, it looked to Conway a delightfully favored place, though if it were inhabited its community must be completely isolated by the lofty and sheerly unscalable ranges on the further side. For a supposed Buddhist lamasery, Shangri-La proved to be a mighty peculiar place.

With central heating, hot baths in porcelain tubs marked ?Product of Akron, Ohio?, smiling attendants, and a vast library of books in dozens of languages, it resembled a luxury hotel more than a lamasery. According to their guide and mentor Chang, the lamasery housed 50 or so full lamas and a number of postulants ? Chang included- and some attendants. The High Lama, a mysterious man who was rarely seen by ?outsiders?, ruled Shangri-La and the Valley of the Blue Moon below. Here the four hapless travelers must stay until some arrangement could be made for them to leave ? possibly with the next group of mountain traders who make irregular visits to Shangri-La. They would be by in a couple of months, or maybe not. They would be willing to take the travelers back with them to China, or maybe not. The reactions of the travelers to this announcement vary. Henry D. Barnard, American: Mr. Barnard has a secret, and is in no hurry whatsoever to get back to ?civilization?. The amenities of Shangri-La suit him perfectly, and he easily makes a decision to stay. To Barnard, Shangri-La is a sanctuary.

Miss Roberta Brinklow, Missionary: To Miss Brinklow, one group of heathens is as good as another. Providence, or fate, or a kidnapped airplane has set her down at the Valley of the New Moon, and there she will open a Christian ministry. Chang, and the ?powers-that-be? of Shangri-La make no objection to this scheme, and the lady sets to work learning Tibetan. To Miss Brinklow, Shangri-La is an opportunity, and her assigned mission in life. Hugh Conway, H.M. Consul: To the world-weary Conway, Shangri-La is Utopia, paradise; his idea of the perfect spot to spend a life of quiet contemplation and learning. With no family to miss him, Conway is content to stay in Shangri-La forever. Captain Charles Mallinson, H.M. Vice-Consul: The 25 year-old Mallinson is deeply suspicious of Chang and the other inhabitants of Shangri-La. He is furious at the idea of being kidnapped, and impatient with the delays getting the travelers back where they belong. His questions get vague answers, or are neatly deflected by Chang.

Mallinson believes the pilot brought the passengers to Shangri-La for some nefarious purpose, and that they will not be allowed to leave. To Mallinson, Shangri-La is a prison, which they must escape by any means possible. While awaiting the arrival (or not) of their possible guide out of the mountains, Conway is summonsed to see the High Lama. He is told the extraordinary history and secret purpose of Shangri-La. But has he been told the truth? Have the travelers been given an unusual opportunity, or are they really prisoners who can never go home? Or does Shangri-La exist at all outside the troubled mind of a man Rutherford found in a hospital in China? Exactly how did Conway end up in China, and where are the other three passengers of the ill-fated plane? ***** ***** ***** ***** At 231 pages in the paperback edition, Lost Horizon can be read quickly. It might take a bit longer to absorb all of the angles and ramifications hinted at in the novel. Much like Thornton Wilder?s The Bridge of San Luis Rey, there are a lot more questions than easy answers. Is Shangri-La a paradise, or a prison?

You will have to work out the answer to that on your own. I first read Lost Horizon as a teenager, and instantly fell in love with the wit of the old Chinese lama, Chang. His dialogues with Miss Brinklow are priceless. With missionary fervor, she confronts Chang to ?explain what all of you believe in.? Chang answered slowly and in little more than a whisper: ?If I were to put it into a very few words, ?I would say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excess of all kinds ? even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself. In the valley which you have seen, and in which there are several thousand inhabitants living under the control of our order, we have found that the principle makes for a considerable degree of happiness. We rule with moderate strictness, and in return we are satisfied with moderate obedience. And I think that I can claim that our people are moderately sober, moderately chaste, and moderately honest.?

When Conway noted that the rule of moderation seemed to apply to the valley people, but not to the lamas, Chang responded: ?I regret, sir, that you have touched upon a matter which I may not discuss. I can only add that our community has various faiths and usages, but we are most of us moderately heretical about them.? Ah, but I loved to hate the angry, whining Mallinson; that worm-in-the-apple who so shockingly states: ?They needn?t worry, these fellows here ? nobody will ever threaten them by land. But, my God, I?d give a good deal to fly over with a load of bombs! ? Because the place wants smashing up, whatever it is. It is unhealthy and unclean ?? I?ve read the book again a couple of times since, and each reading uncovers nuances that I missed before. At some point it struck me that the four passengers on the plane, and the lama Chang, are archetypes. I have met every one of them a number of times, and have come to appreciate their good points ?and bad. Even the angry Mallinson may have more reason on his side than I could see as a teen.

In fact, he may have been the only one in the group who was seeing clearly. Or maybe not. We all have a vision of Utopia, the perfect world; the earthly paradise. The problem is, it is a different vision for each of us. One man?s paradise may indeed be another man?s prison. They are not mutually exclusive. ***** ***** ***** ***** Lost Horizon (novel) : Wikis (The Full Wiki) The Full Wiki More info on Lost Horizon (novel) Wikis Lost Horizon (novel): Wikis Advertisements Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles . (Redirected to Lost Horizon article) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lost Horizon Dust jacket from the first edition Author For other uses, see Lost Horizon (disambiguation) . Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton . It is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La , a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet .

Contents Plot summary Overview Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La , whose inhabitants enjoy unheard-of longevity . Among the book's themes is an allusion to the possibility of another cataclysmic world war brewing, as indeed it was at the time. It is said to have been inspired at least in part by accounts of travels in Tibetan borderlands, published in the National Geographic by the explorer and botanist Joseph Rock . The remote communities he visited, such as Muli , show many similarities to the fictional Shangri-La. One such town, Zhongdian , has now officially renamed itself as Shangri La (Chinese: Xianggelila) because of its claim to be the inspiration for the novel. Story The origin of the eleven numbered chapters of the novel is explained in a prologue and epilogue, whose narrator is a neurologist. This neurologist and a novelist friend, Rutherford, are given dinner at Tempelhof , Berlin, by their old school-friend Wyland, a secretary at the British embassy.

A chance remark by a passing airman brings up the topic of Hugh Conway, a British consul in Afghanistan, who disappeared under odd circumstances. Later in the evening, Rutherford reveals to the narrator that, after the disappearance, he discovered Conway in a French mission hospital in Chung-Kiang (probably Chongqing ), China, suffering from amnesia. Conway recovered his memory and told Rutherford his story, then slipped away again. Rutherford wrote down Conway's story; he gives the manuscript to the neurologist, and that manuscript becomes the heart of the novel. In May, 1931, during the British Raj in India, the 90 white residents of Baskul are being evacuated to Peshawar , owing to a revolution. In the airplane of the Maharajah of Chandrapore are Conway, the British consul, age 37; Mallinson, his young vice-consul; an American, Barnard; and a British missionary, Miss Brinklow. The plane is hijacked and flown instead over the mountains to Tibet. After a crash landing, the pilot dies, but not before telling the four (in Chinese, which Conway knows) to seek shelter at the nearby lamasery of Shangri-La.

The location is unclear, but Conway believes the plane has "progressed far beyond the western range of the Himalayas towards the less known heights of the Kuen-Lun" (i.e. Kunlun ). The four are taken there by a party directed by Chang, a postulant at the lamasery who speaks English. The lamasery has modern conveniences, like central heating ; bathtubs from Akron, Ohio ; a large library; a grand piano ; a harpsichord ; and food from the fertile valley below. Towering above is Karakal, literally translated "Blue Moon," a mountain more than 28,000 feet (8,500 m) high. Mallinson is keen to hire porters and leave, but Chang politely puts him off. The others eventually decide they are content to stay: Miss Brinklow, to teach the people a sense of sin; Barnard, because he is really Chalmers Bryant (wanted by the police for stock fraud) and because he is keen to develop the gold-mines in the valley; Conway, because the contemplative scholarly life suits him. Conway is given an audience with the High Lama, an unheard-of honor.

He learns that the lamasery was constructed in its present form by a Catholic monk named Perrault from Luxembourg , in the early eighteenth century. The lamasery has since then been joined by others who have found their way into the valley. Once they have done so, their aging slows; if they then leave the valley, they age quickly and die. Conway guesses correctly that the High Lama is Perrault, now 300 years old. A seemingly young Manchu woman, Lo-Tsen, is another postulant at the lamasery; she does not speak English but plays the harpsichord. Mallinson falls in love with her, as does Conway, though more languidly. In a later audience, the High Lama reveals that he is finally dying, and that he wants Conway to lead the lamasery. Meanwhile, Mallinson has arranged to leave the valley with porters and Lo-Tsen. They are waiting for him 5 miles (8.0 km) outside the valley, and he cannot traverse the dangerous route by himself, so he convinces Conway to go along. This ends Rutherford's manuscript.

The last time Rutherford saw Conway, it appeared he was preparing to make his way back to Shangri-La. Rutherford completes his account by telling the neurologist that he attempted to track Conway and verify some of his claims of Shangri-La. He found the Chung-Kiang doctor who had treated Conway. The doctor said Conway had been brought in by a Chinese woman who was ill and died soon after. She was old, the doctor had told Rutherford, "Most old of anyone I have ever seen", implying that it was Lo-Tsen, aged drastically by her departure from Shangri-La. Literary significance The book, published in 1933, caught the notice of the public only after Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips was published in 1934. Lost Horizon subsequently became a huge success and in 1939 was published in paperback form, as Pocket Book #1 . Because of its number-one position in what became a very long list of pocket editions, Lost Horizon is often cited as the first American paperback book, which is not correct.

The first mass-market, pocket-sized, paperback book printed in America was an edition of Pearl Buck 's The Good Earth , produced by Pocket Books as a proof-of-concept in late 1938. Also, inexpensive books bound in paper have existed since as early as the 19th century [1] U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt named the Presidential hideaway in Maryland after Shangri-La. (It has since been renamed Camp David .) The book has been made into two films: Lost Horizon (1973), directed by Charles Jarrott (musical version) The book also served as the basis for the unsuccessful 1956 Broadway musical Shangri-La . Hilton's novel was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in three hour-long episodes under its Classic Serial banner. Broadcast 20 September to 4 October 1981, it was dramatised by Barry Campbell and starred Derek Jacobi as Hugh Conway. The novel is highly referenced in the book Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr . The novel is said to be a loose basis for the film Star Trek: Insurrection.

Lost Horizon is currently available in paperback format and is now published by Summersdale Publishers Ltd [1] , ISBN: 978 1 84024 353 6 in the UK. The Shangri-La Hotels , based in Singapore but extending to Australia, Malaysia and other Asian countries, are also named and to some extent themed after the lamasery of the book. Some of the hotels provide guests with a complementary copy of the book, a practice stretching back to the chain's first hotel in Singapore in the 1970s. Notes and references ^ See, for example, the Tauchnitz editions. External links

Question: The fictional utopian valley known as Shangri-La first appeared in what 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton?
Answer: Lost Horizon