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Lost in Shangri-la

by Mitchell Zuckoff

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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.

United StatesSurvival after airplane accidents, shipwrecksSearch and rescue operationsWorld War, 1939-1945American Aerial operationsPrimitive societiesMissing in actionUnited States. Army Air ForcesAircraft accidentsNew York Times bestsellernyt:e-book_nonfiction=2011-04-23Airplane crash survival