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Lost in Shangri-La : : a True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

Zuckoff, Mitchell. Book - 2011 940.548 Zu None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea.

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state of fear and wonder submitted by amy on July 14, 2011, 2:49pm If you couldn't get enough of Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken" or Ann Patchett's fictional "State of Wonder," this book is for you. Like "Unbroken," it's a true account of a plane crash during World War II and the harrowing tale of adventure and survival that follows. Neither the writing nor the story are quite as rich as Hillenbrand's, though in Zuckoff's defense the plot wraps up in a far shorter span of time and can't quite compete with the epic storytelling at the heart of "Unbroken." And instead of sharks you get a tribe of stone-age cannibals.

Patchett's "State of Wonder" also features a (fictional) tribe of cannibals virtually unknown to the rest of the world and a woman struggling to find her emotional and physical bearings in the lush, dense jungle. Ok, so there the comparisons end, but the point here is that all three stories memorably chronicle an intense personal odyssey of loss and survival in a foreign wilderness and bring their protagonists face to face with an unknown culture that causes them - and us - to reflect on what it means to be human.