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Lost in Shangri-la [large print] : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II
Title:
Lost in Shangri-la [large print] : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II
Author:
Zuckoff, Mitchell.
ISBN:
9780062065049
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Edition:
1st HarperLuxe ed.
Publication Information:
New York : HarperLuxe, c2011.
Physical Description:
xi, 545 p. (large print) : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Missing -- Hollandia -- Shangri-La -- Gremlin Special -- Eureka! -- Charms -- Tarzan -- Gentleman explorer -- Guilt and gangrene -- Earl Walter, Junior and Senior -- Uwambo -- Wimayuk Wandik, aka "Chief Pete" -- Come what may -- Five-by-five -- No Thanksgiving -- Rammy and Doc -- Custer and company -- Bathtime for Yugwe -- "Shoo, shoo baby" -- "Hey, Martha!" -- Promised land -- Hollywood -- Gliders? -- Two queens -- Snatch -- Epilogue: After Shangri-La.
Abstract:
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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