Lost in Shangri-la : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II / Mitchell Zuckoff.
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TextPublisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2012Copyright date: ©2011Edition: First Harper Perennial editionDescription: xii, 384, 34 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- General
- 9780061988356 (pbk.)
- True story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II [Portion of title]
- United States. Army Air Forces -- Search and rescue operations
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Missing in action -- New Guinea
- Airplane crash survival -- New Guinea
- Aircraft accidents -- New Guinea
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Search and rescue operations -- New Guinea
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Search and rescue operations -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
- Primitive societies -- New Guinea
- 940.54/8 23
- 940.54 15
- D767.95 .Z84 2012
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Originally published: New York : Harper, 2011. With additional material.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-370) and index.
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.
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