The Search for Shangri-La: A Journey Into Tibetan History by Charles Allen

The Search for Shangri-La: A Journey Into Tibetan History

Charles Allen

305 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous medium-paced
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The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word Shangri-La to describe such a place, when he gave that name to a hidden valley in the Himalayas in ...

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