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.
- Basis for the Frank Capra Film -
LOST HORIZON
by James Hilton
Published by Reader's Digest, 1990. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, solid spine, leather spine, decorative front board, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 8vo, 191 pages.
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.
The book was turned into a film, also called Lost Horizon, in 1937 by director Frank Capra. IBest remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery located high in the mountains of Tibet.
The 1937 Frank Capra film, which introduced most of the world to the idyllic pacifist paradise of "Shangri-La" in the high Himalayas, starred Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt. "Nothing reveals men's characters more than their Utopias. . . . This Utopia closely resembles a film star's luxurious estate on Beverly Hills: flirtatious pursuits through grape arbours, splashings and divings in blossomy pools under improbable waterfalls, and rich and enormous meals. . . ." From 1973 to 1986 the American Film Institute worked to restore the film -- now considered a classic -- to its original running time, though seven minutes of soundtrack now play over production stills, as the footage for those segments was never recovered. When reporters asked Franklin Roosevelt where the twin-engine B-25 bombers in which Jimmy Doolittle bombed Tokyo in early 1942 had come from, he replied "from Shangri-La."
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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.
- Basis for the Frank Capra Film -
LOST HORIZON
by James Hilton
Published by Reader's Digest, 1990. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, solid spine, leather spine, decorative front board, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 8vo, 191 pages.
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.
The book was turned into a film, also called Lost Horizon, in 1937 by director Frank Capra. IBest remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery located high in the mountains of Tibet.
The 1937 Frank Capra film, which introduced most of the world to the idyllic pacifist paradise of "Shangri-La" in the high Himalayas, starred Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt. "Nothing reveals men's characters more than their Utopias. . . . This Utopia closely resembles a film star's luxurious estate on Beverly Hills: flirtatious pursuits through grape arbours, splashings and divings in blossomy pools under improbable waterfalls, and rich and enormous meals. . . ." From 1973 to 1986 the American Film Institute worked to restore the film -- now considered a classic -- to its original running time, though seven minutes of soundtrack now play over production stills, as the footage for those segments was never recovered. When reporters asked Franklin Roosevelt where the twin-engine B-25 bombers in which Jimmy Doolittle bombed Tokyo in early 1942 had come from, he replied "from Shangri-La."
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