Lost in Shangri-la
About this book
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
- aerial military operations
- aircraft accidents
- airplane crash survival
- american
- american aerial operations
- armed forces
- missing in action
- new guinea, history
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:e-book_nonfiction=2011-04-23
- nyt:hardcover_political_books=2011-08-27
- primitive societies
- search and rescue operations
- survival
- survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks
- survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
- united states
- united states, army air forces
- united states. army air forces
- world war, 1939-1945
- world war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, american
- world war (1939-1945) fast (ocolc)fst01180924
- world war, 1939-1945, pacific area