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03847aam a2200433Ki 4500 001 63F51304B50C11E5BD7FDBD8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160107010046 006 a 007 sd 008 150910s2015 orunnnn h n eng d 020 $a 9781504653190 020 $a 150465319X 028 02 $a ZPae91 $b Blackstone Audiobooks 040 $a BLACP $b eng $e rda $c BLACP $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d LX# $d SILO 100 1 $a Zuckoff, Mitchell. 245 10 $a Lost in Shangri-la : $b [a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II] / $c Mitchell Zuckoff. 250 $a Unabridged 264 1 $a [Ashland, Oregon] : $b Blackstone Audio, Inc. $c [2015] 300 $a 7 audio discs (8 hr., 32 min.) : $b CD audio, digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 306 $a 083200 500 $a Downloadable audio file. 500 $a Compact discs. 511 0 $a Read by the author. 520 $a On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over "Shangri-La," a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton's bestselling novel Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals. But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival when the plane crashed. Miraculously, three passengers pulled through. Margaret Hastings, barefoot and burned, had no choice but to wear her dead best friend's shoes. John McCollom, grieving the death of his twin brother who was also aboard the plane, masked his grief with stoicism. Kenneth Decker, too, was severely burned and suffered a gaping head wound. Emotionally devastated, badly injured, and vulnerable to the hidden dangers of the jungle, the trio faced certain death unless they left the crash site. Caught between man-eating headhunters and enemy Japanese, the wounded passengers endured a harrowing hike down the mountainside-a journey into the unknown that would lead them straight into a primitive tribe of superstitious natives who had never before seen a white man-or woman. Drawn from interviews, declassified US Army documents, personal photos and mementos, a survivor's diary, a rescuer's journal, and original film footage, Lost in Shangri-La recounts this incredible true-life adventure for the first time. Mitchell Zuckoff reveals how the determined trio-dehydrated, sick, and in pain-traversed the dense jungle to find help; how a brave band of paratroopers risked their own lives to save the survivors; and how a cowboy colonel attempted a previously untested rescue mission to get them out. By trekking into the New Guinea jungle, visiting remote villages, and rediscovering the crash site, Zuckoff also captures the contemporary natives' remembrances of the long-ago day when strange creatures fell from the sky. A riveting work of narrative nonfiction that vividly brings to life an odyssey at times terrifying, enlightening, and comic, Lost in Shangri-La is a thrill ride from beginning to end. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army Air Forces $x Search and rescue operations. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Missing in action $z New Guinea. 650 0 $a Airplane crash survival $z New Guinea. 650 0 $a Aircraft accidents $z New Guinea. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Search and rescue operations $z New Guinea. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Search and rescue operations $z United States. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations, American. 650 0 $a Primitive societies $z New Guinea. 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 945 $a cda 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20160107010352.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=63F51304B50C11E5BD7FDBD8DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b LX#Initiate Another SILO Locator Search