James Hilton was born in Lancashire in 1900, the son of a headmaster. His best known books, Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr Chips, were written during the thirties, a period which afforded him great commercial success and enormous popularity. Lost Horizon was made into a blockbuster Hollywood film in 1937. For a time, Hilton was highest paid screen-writer in Hollywood and he won an Academy Award in 1942 for his work on the screenplay of Mrs. Miniver. Hilton continued to write novels throughout his career. He died in 1954.
Del autor de Adiós, señor Chips. Un levantamiento en Baskul obliga a un grupo de tres residentes británicos y uno estadounidense a huir de la India, pero su avión es secuestrado por el piloto, que se desvía del rumbo previsto y aterriza en una zona ignota de los confines del Tíbet....
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