A missionary Roberta Brinklow a little past her prime the unkind would say.

His vice -consul young hot- tempered Charles Mallinson, rather impetuous or just a coward. 'Glory' Hugh Conway a British consul, in some half- forgotten and remote city in Asia (suffering shell shock, from W.W.1). Tibet an almost unknown country with few visitors who return back home to report their findings, the apparent destination. The aircraft goes above, around and hopefully not through them, a spectacular view for those with the guts to look, beautiful the Himalayas and frightening too. A 'mad' Asian pilot with a gun does, flying east into the tallest mountains in the world. Skyjacked! Unheard of in the early 1930's, yet it did happen to four passengers in Afghanistan, during a civil conflict there sounds sadly familiar. Thrilling and timeless, Lost Horizon is a masterpiece of modern fiction, and one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century. 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. 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. 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.

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. Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. 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.

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