Conway, one of four people whose plane crashed while they were fleeing a civil war in a foreign land, is rescued along with the rest of his group by a mysterious Chinese man who takes them to safety in Shangri-la, a land of peace and beauty where they are offered near immortality on the condition that they never leave.
year: 1960, 1933, 1990, 1939, 1966, 1936, 1981, 1962
call number/section: 1000
subjects: aircraft accidents, fiction, fantasy, fantasy fiction, tibet (china), fiction, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, shangri-la (imaginary place), utopian fiction, himalaya mountains, utopias, fiction, adventure fiction, fiction, tibet
Editions
Hilton, James
Pocket (1960)
Conway, one of four people whose plane crashed while they were fleeing a civil war in a foreign land, is rescued along with the rest of his group by a mysterious Chinese man who takes them to safety in Shangri-la, a land of peace and beauty where they are offered near immortality on the condition that they never leave.
Schools: 3
Hilton, James
Amereon House (1933)
A plane load of foreigners fleeing war-worn China find themselves in an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped.
Schools: 0
Hilton, James
Reader's Digest Association (1990)
Schools: 1
Hilton, James
Pocket Books (1939)
When a plane lands under mysterious circumstances, four people find themselves involuntary guests in a place unknown and inaccessible to the world.
Schools: 0
Hilton, James
Pocket Book (1966)
Schools: 0
Hilton, James
Morrow (1936)
Schools: 0
Hilton, James
Morrow (1936)
Schools: 0
Hilton, James
W. Morrow (1936)
Schools: 0
Hilton, James
Schools: 0
Hilton, James
Franklin Library (1981)
Schools: 0
Hilton, James
Published for Morrow by Houghton Mifflin (1962)
Schools: 0
Hilton, James
Schools: 0
Hilton, James
On the northwestern frontier of India, Conway was a passenger on a plane taken over by a native pilot and never heard of again. What Conway found in ShangriLa makes the story.
Schools: 1
Hilton, James
Morrow (1936)
Schools: 1
Hilton, James
s.n.
Schools: 0
Hilton, James
Published for Morrow by Houghton Mifflin (1962)
Schools: 0
Hilton, James
Schools: 0