Lost Horizon
Hidden valley novel
Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by James Hilton about travelers who discover Shangri-La, a hidden utopian valley in the Himalayas where time moves slowly and residents live extraordinarily long lives.
The story popularized Shangri-La as a term for any remote paradise or place of perfect peace.
The phrase lost horizon sometimes evokes unreachable ideals or vanished possibilities.
- Shangri-LaFictional Himalayan utopia
- utopiaImagined perfect society
- paradiseIdeal, blissful place
- hiddenKept out of sight
- valleyLow ground between heights
Tibet · Himalayas · snow-capped peaks · monastery · eternal · youth · mountains · mist · remote · sanctuary · escape · lamasery · eternal youth · immortality · serenity · adventure · plane crash · snow
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