They work, but not too hard they obey the rules, but The central tenant, Change explains, of the Horizon are brought? The first thing they notice is that the lamasery hasĬentral heating, which is quite extraordinary given its geographical isolation.īut it offers much more than that. What is the new world like to which the characters of Lost With no other choice,Īll of the outsiders agree, and they undertake the arduous journey up to the They have everything that the others could possibly want. He offers to lead these helpless people to the lamasery of Shangri-La, where Man, who introduces himself as Chang, and his servants who bear him on a chair. Without food or water, and with the hijacker dying from hisīut instead rescue comes in the form of a mysterious Chinese Himalayas, where eventually their pilot crashes in the middle of a high andĪlien plateau. Get into the cockpit, their pilot is armed and is able to defend himself, andĮventually they leave off and enjoy the journey. The war and now aimlessly works in the Consular Service an Americanīusinessman and a young and impetuous soldier, Mallinson.

Woman, a Christian missionary Conway, a soldier who had taught at Oxford after This manuscript makes up the rest of the story.įour people are on board the hijacked plane – there is a Happened to Conway, and provides him with a manuscript recording what Conway told Once they are alone the novelist confides to his friend that he does know what To after it was commandeered – the passengers mysteriously disappeared. But nobody knows where the plane was taken Suspected – their mutual friend from Oxford, Hijacking that took place in Baskul in Persia, and learns that – as he Rutherford, a novelist friend of the narrator’s, enquires about a plane Things often do, to questions about mutual friends and what has become of them. Lost Horizon begins with a frame narrative, detailingĪn after-dinner discussion between old school friends that leads, as these

Our main character, anĮnglishman named Conway, suffers acutely from his time in the trenches. Slaughter, which in large part contributed to a great feeling of decline, both culturalĪnd spiritual, which permeate Lost Horizon. Most significant is the First World War and the experience there of grinding The end of the British Empire, are also key points of context. Wars between China and Japan, and the beginnings of To power in Germany – and the bulk of its action takes place in 1931, a year no

The book was published in 1933 – the year that Hitler came A painting by Nicholas Roerich, a Russian artist working in India’s Himalayas at the same time as Lost Horizon is set.

Book lost horizon by james hilton