It was May 13, 1945, when 24 American servicemen and WACs stepped onboard a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over "Shangri-La," a beautiful valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. In Lost in Shangri-La, Mitchell Zuckoff reports the true story of what became an unforgettable battle for survival after the plane crashed. Caught between man-eating headhunters and enemy Japanese, the wounded passengers endured a journey into the unknown that would lead them straight into a primitive tribe of superstitious natives who had never seen a white man... or woman. A spellbinding work of narrative nonfiction, Zuckoff's book recounts an odyssey by turns terrifying, enlightening and strangely comic.

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