{"id":828,"date":"2012-04-03T15:18:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T20:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2015-02-24T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T20:19:11","slug":"zuckoff-honored-for-lost-in-shangri-la","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/zuckoff-honored-for-lost-in-shangri-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckoff honored for ‘Lost in Shangri-La’"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Apr. 2, Prof. Mitch Zuckoff’s<\/a><\/strong> book Lost in Shangri-La<\/em> was awarded the 2012 Laurence L. & Thomas Winship\/PEN New England Award<\/a> for nonfiction.<\/p>\n

Zuckoff’s book follows the strange events following a post-WWII plane crash in a land untouched by the outside world. From the book’s website:<\/p>\n

On May 13, 1945, twenty-four officers and enlisted men and women stationed on what was then Dutch New Guinea boarded a transport plane named the Gremlin Special for a sightseeing trip over “Shangri-La,” a beautiful and mysterious valley surrounded by steep, jagged mountain peaks deep within the island’s uncharted jungle.<\/p>\n

But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival when the plane crashed. Miraculously, three passengers survived \u2013 WAC Corporal Margaret Hastings, Lieutenant John McCollom, and Sergeant Kenneth Decker.<\/p>\n

Emotionally devastated, badly injured, and vulnerable to disease, parasites, and poisonous snakes in the wet jungle climate, the trio was caught between man-eating headhunters and the enemy Japanese. With nothing to sustain them but a handful of candy and their own fortitude, they endured a harrowing trek down the mountainside \u2013 straight into a primitive tribe of superstitious natives who had never before seen a white man or woman.<\/p>\n

Lost in Shangri-La recounts this incredible true-life adventure for the first time. A riveting work of narrative nonfiction that vividly brings to life an odyssey at times terrifying, enlightening, and comic, Lost in Shangri-La is a thrill ride from beginning to end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Find out more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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