James hilton shangri la6/23/2023 ![]() James Hilton, the only son of John and Elizabeth Hilton, was born on 9 September, 1900 in Leigh in Lancashire, England (at his grandfather’s house). But who was James Hilton and how did he come to write this novel? Why did Lost Horizon (both the novel and the film) become so popular around the world? And which place(s) inspired Hilton’s Shangri-La? Here we explore these questions. James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon published in 1933 established Tibet in Utopian literature and introduced a new word to our language – Shangri-La. He climbed it in mind as he gazed … Soon after that the journey to Shangri-La was begun. ![]() He was also interested in the mountain beyond the valley it was a sensational peak, by any standards, and he was surprised that some traveller had not made much of it in the kind of book that a journey in Tibet invariably elicits. ![]() ![]() The Crafting of a Tibetan Utopia», Himalayan Journal 64 (2008), en Rasoul Sorkhabi, «James Hilton and Shangri-La. ![]()
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