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1933 novel lost horizon7/2/2023 ![]() Between interruptions by cute grandchildren, he recounted how his father had been Joseph Rock’s secretary and that he had met the explorer himself when he was a child. I met the now ninety-one-year-old Xuen Ke in his house on the outskirts of Lijiang. ![]() He said in radio and newspaper interviews that he was influenced by the writings of Abbé Huc, a French priest who travelled to Tibet in 1844 but at no point did he mention Joseph Rock. Prior to writing his book, Hilton had researched the Tibetan region in the British museum’s library in London. Xuen Ke suggested Hilton may have read National Geographic articles written by Austrian-American ‘plant hunter’, Joseph Rock who had recently made several expeditions in the area. Lost Horizon was translated into Mandarin in the late 1970s and the man who organised this, Xuen Ke, noticed similarities between the geography in the story and that of Yunnan and Sichuan, almost 2,000 km away from the Kunluns. ![]() ![]() Watch the video to see the trajectory of the plane. ![]()
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