3/13/2023 0 Comments Draegast the last horizonThe location is unclear, but Conway believes the plane has "progressed far beyond the western range of the Himalayas" towards the less known heights of the Kuen-Lun mountain range. After a crash landing, the pilot dies, but not before telling the four (in Chinese, which only Conway speaks) to seek shelter at the nearby lamasery of Shangri-La. The plane is hijacked and flown instead over the mountains to Tibet. In the aeroplane of the Maharajah of Chandrapore are: Conway, the British consul, aged 37 Mallinson, his young vice-consul an American, Barnard and a British missionary, Miss Brinklow. In May 1931, during the British Raj in India, the 80 white residents of Baskul are being evacuated to Peshawar due to revolution. Rutherford gives the neurologist his manuscript, which becomes the heart of the novel. Conway recovered his memory, told Rutherford his story (which Rutherford recorded in a manuscript), and then slipped away again. Later in the evening, Rutherford reveals to the neurologist that, after the disappearance, he discovered Conway in a French mission hospital in Chung-Kiang (probably Chongqing), China, suffering from amnesia. A chance remark by a passing airman brings up the topic of Hugh Conway, a British consul in Afghanistan, who disappeared under odd circumstances. This neurologist and a novelist friend, Rutherford, are given dinner at Tempelhof, Berlin, by their old school-friend Wyland, a secretary at the British embassy. The prologue and epilogue are narrated by a neurologist. Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, whose inhabitants enjoy unheard-of longevity.
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