James Hilton (September 9, 1900 - December 20, 1954) was a Oscar-winning novelist, and author of several best-sellers including Lost Horizon (which popularised the mythical Shangri La) and Goodbye Mr Chips. Wikipedia
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In this sequel to James Hiltons 1934 classic, it is the fall of 1997, some sixty-years after Hugh Conway was shanghaied from Baskul and disappeared without a trace. www.kilburnhall.blogspot.com/