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| Airs July 26 - August 25, 2011 |
In May of 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and women boarded a
transport plane for a sightseeing trip over a beautiful and mysterious valley in
New Guinea called Shang-La. But what started out as a pleasure tour became a
battle for survival when the plane crashed killing all but three of those on board.
Emotionally devastated, badly injured, and vulnerable to the hidden dangers of the
jungle, the trio knew they faced certain death unless they left the crash site---but
that meant a journey into the unknown that would lead them straight into a
primitive tribe of superstitious natives who had never before seen a white man---
or woman.
Cokie Roberts says, “This is exciting history told exactly as it should be, through
the words and images of those who lived it.”
transport plane for a sightseeing trip over a beautiful and mysterious valley in
New Guinea called Shang-La. But what started out as a pleasure tour became a
battle for survival when the plane crashed killing all but three of those on board.
Emotionally devastated, badly injured, and vulnerable to the hidden dangers of the
jungle, the trio knew they faced certain death unless they left the crash site---but
that meant a journey into the unknown that would lead them straight into a
primitive tribe of superstitious natives who had never before seen a white man---
or woman.
Cokie Roberts says, “This is exciting history told exactly as it should be, through
the words and images of those who lived it.”
| Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zukoff Harper Collins, N.Y., 2011 |
