In Search of Shangri-La: The Extraordinary True Story of the Quest for the Lost Horizon

In Search of Shangri-La: The Extraordinary True Story of the Quest for the Lost Horizon

by Michael Mc Rae (Author)

Synopsis

Since the 19th century, Westerners have laid siege to the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet. The colonial British saw it as a strategic prize, 1920s botanist Frank Kingdon-Ward saw it as a geographical puzzle to solve and Oxford educated American Tibet scholar Ian Baker (discoverer of the hidden waterfall in the 1990s) saw it as a hidden Buddhist realm. More recently kayakers have seen the rapids as the last great whitewater challenge. They paid with their lives. For all, the reality was unimportant. All heaped their own perceptions on the mythology that had come before. This title combines adventure, travel, history and myth to tell the story of the search for the hidden falls of Shangri-la.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Published: 27 Mar 2003

ISBN 10: 0718144309
ISBN 13: 9780718144302

Author Bio
Michael McRae is a former contributing editor to Outside Magazine (which originated both Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm). He has twice visited the Tsangpo gorge, home of the hidden falls of Shangri-La.