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Lost in Shangri-La
by Zuckoff, Mitchell
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New in As New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0061988340
- ISBN 13
- 9780061988349
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About This Item
NY: HarperCollins. As New in As New dust jacket. 2011. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0061988340 . Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over blue boards, bronze lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over Shangri-La, a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hiltons bestselling novel Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals. But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival when the plane crashed. Miraculously, three passengers pulled through. Margaret Hastings, barefoot and burned, had no choice but to wear her dead best friends shoes. John McCollom, grieving the death of his twin brother also aboard the plane, masked his grief with stoicism. Kenneth Decker, too, was severely burned and suffered a gaping head wound. Emotionally devastated, badly injured, and vulnerable to the hidden dangers of the jungle, the trio faced certain death unless they left the crash site. Caught between man-eating headhunters and enemy Japanese, the wounded passengers endured a harrowing hike down the mountainsidea journey into the unknown that would lead them straight into a primitive tribe of superstitious natives who had never before seen a white manor woman. Drawn from interviews, declassified U. S. Army documents, personal photos and mementos, a survivors diary, a rescuers journal, and original film footage, Lost in Shangri-La recounts this incredible true-life adventure for the first time. Mitchell Zuckoff reveals how the determined triodehydrated, sick, and in paintraversed the dense jungle to find help; how a brave band of paratroopers risked their own lives to save the survivors; and how a cowboy colonel attempted a previously untested rescue mission to get them out. By trekking into the New Guinea jungle, visiting remote villages, and rediscovering the crash site, Zuckoff also captures the contemporary natives remembrances of the long-ago day when strange creatures fell from the sky. A riveting work of narrative nonfiction that vividly brings to life an odyssey at times terrifying, enlightening, and comic, Lost in Shangri-La is a thrill ride from beginning to end. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 384 pp .
Synopsis
In 1945, a sightseeing trip over "Shangri-La" turned deadly when the plane crashed, leaving only three survivors who, battling for their survival, were caught between man-eating headhunters and the enemy Japanese, in this real-life adventure drawn from personal interviews, declassified Army documents and personal photos and mementos.
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21164
- Title
- Lost in Shangri-La
- Author
- Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- New As New in As New dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0061988340
- ISBN 13
- 9780061988349
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- 0061988340, Military History, rescue missions, World War II, WW2
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