Summary Of The Lama Of Shangra

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The story begins when Robert Conway and group of people are on their way to the dangerous land in India. One was his escort named Mallinson and the other two was Miss Brinklon and Barnard, two travelers. On their flight, their plane was hijacked. Unexpectedly, the plane crashed in the mountain of Tibet. The pilot died and a lama of Shangri-La came to pick them up to bring in Shangri-La, a mysterious place. Shangri-La don’t have a communication outside their paradise so the other survivors got afraid but Conway remains calm and he’s enjoying having conversation with Chang because he was talking about the history of Shangri-La that was found by Belgian Father Perrault two hundred years

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