The plane crashes, and before the pilot dies, he tells the passengers to seek shelter in Shangri-La. However,the plane is hijacked, and instead of heading to Peshawar, it is flown over the mountains to Tibet. The passengers are: Conway the young vice-consul Mallinson Barnard, who is from the United States and Miss Brinklow, a British missionary. The book describes the passengers aboard the airplane owned by the Maharajah of the fictional Indian city Chandrapore. In May of 1931, during the British Raj period in India, the eighty white residents of Baskul are being moved to Peshawar because of a revolution. This remembrance is the majority of the novel. For a brief period, however, Conway had recovered from his memory loss and shared his story with Rutherford, before his memory slipped away once again. As the dinner unfolds, Rutherford tells the neurologist that he had seen Conway in a French mission hospital in Chung-Kiang, China, showing signs of amnesia. They begin discussing Hugh Conway, a British consul in Afghanistan who has gone missing under unusual circumstances. He and a novelist friend of his, Rutherford, attend a dinner in Berlin being hosted by another friend, Wyland, a secretary at the British embassy. The prologue-and later, the epilogue-of James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon are narrated by a neurologist.
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