Lost Horizon

James Hilton, the son of John Hilton, was born in Leigh, Lancashire, England on September 9, 1900. His father was the headmaster of Chapel End School in Waltham-stow. He was educated at Leys School and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature and received an honors degree. He won the Academy award in 1942 for writing screenplay of Mrs. Maniyer. Both of his marriages first to Alice Brown and then to Galina Kopineckded ended in divorceJames Hilton is best remembered for his novels 'Lost Horizon' and 'Goodye, Mr. Chips!'; though he wrote many other good novels like 'Random Harvest', 'So well remembered' etc. James Hilton died of liver cancer on December 20, 1954.Lost Horizon was first published in 1933 and gained immense popularity particularly after release of the movie 'Lost Horizon in 1937. Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the second novel of James Hilton had also contributed in the popularity of Lost Horizon. When an uprising in Baskul forces a small group of English and American residents to flee, their plane crash-lands in the far western reaches of the Tibetan Himalayas. There, they find themselves stranded outside the protective borders of the British Empire and discover access to a place beyond the bounds of the imagination-a legendary paradise, the mystic monastery at Shangri-La.This book is illustrated with photographs of different places in Himalayan regions.