Shangri-La

Shangri-La

Where the phrase comes from  ·  Card no. 4066

Invented by James Hilton for his 1933 novel Lost Horizon: a hidden valley where nobody grows old. It was fiction from the start, though Roosevelt named a presidential retreat after it and several towns have claimed to be it.

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