Lost Horizon

By Hilton. James.

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• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B0010ZJOL0
• Release Date: January 1938
• Publisher: Macmillan & Co Ltd
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Imagine that you went through the Great War with WWII on the horizon.

There is a civil war in Bakul. Four people escaping the conflict are shanghaied: Miss Roberta Brinklow, of the Eastern Mission; Henry D. Bernard, a U.S. citizen; Hugh Conway, H.M. Consul; and Capt. Charles Mallison, H.M. Vice-Consul. We follow their adventure, slowly learning about each personality and how each personal experience formed the character he/she is today. During the adventure, we find it different from the movie(s) that they were a “Random Harvest” instead of purposely pilfered as the movie version would have us believe. There are other differences in learning about a lamasery named Shangri-La and its various mysteries. I will not go through the details, as you will want to discover them for yourself. The book is more about human nature than the magic in the moonlight. I had to slow down because there were references to German words (concepts) and the Swiss Alps that I needed to research to understand why they were mentioned. I have a hard copy of the book. However, I had to try the Kindle version with WhisperSync. The narrator made each character sound different. However, the script that the narrator read was slightly different than the printed wording.