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

McRae, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718144309 ISBN 13: 9780718144302

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2003

Synopsis

Since the 19th Century, Westerners have laid siege to the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet.

The colonial British saw it as a strategic prize, 1920's botanist Frank Kingdon-Ward as a geographical puzzle to solve, Oxford educated American Tibet scholar Ian Baker (discoverer of the hidden waterfall in the 1990s) 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.

IN SEARCH OF SHANGRI-LA is adventure, history and myth. But above all, it's a great story, beautifully told.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0718144309
• ISBN 13: 9780718144302
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240