Behind The Myth Of Shangri-La
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Shangri-La – the earthly paradise that has captured the imaginations of explorers and scholars alike around the globe – is a fictional utopia described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon.
Selina Tan
Behind The Myth Of Shangri-La

The author, James Hilton, locates this most serene and beautiful place at the western end of the Kunlun Mountains, a vast mountain chain that extends east from the Pamirs of Tajikistan to the Sino-Tibetan ranges in China’s Qinghai Province.

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