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Lost in Shangri-la

by Mitchell Zuckoff · 2011

United StatesSurvival after airplane accidents, shipwrecksSearch and rescue operationsWorld War, 1939-1945American Aerial operationsPrimitive societiesMissing in actionUnited States. Army Air Forces

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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Book data: Open Library