![]() Among the book's themes is an allusion to the possibility of another cataclysmic world war brewing. In the novel, Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, whose inhabitants enjoy unheard-of longevity. ![]() Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, and particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the outside world. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. ![]() Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton. ![]()
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