545 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2011 by HarperLuxe.
Lost in Shangri-la
a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II
4 stars
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Describes the 1945 odyssey of three plane crash survivors in New Guinea who endured a harrowing journey through the jungle to seek help, their encounter with a primitive tribe who had never seen white people, and their eventual rescue by a band of paratroopers.
Subjects
- Survival
- Airplane crash survival
- Aircraft accidents
- United States
- Search and rescue operations
- World War, 1939-1945
- American Aerial operations
- Primitive societies
- Missing in action
- United States. Army Air Forces
Places
- United States
- New Guinea