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Shangri-La is a fictional place in Tibet's Kunlun Mountains, [1] described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by English author James Hilton. Hilton portrays Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery , enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. [ 1 ]
Shangri-La is a musical with a book and lyrics by James Hilton, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee and music by Harry Warren. [1]Based on Hilton's classic 1933 novel Lost Horizon, it focuses on Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, who stumbles across a utopian lamasery high in the Himalayas in Tibet after surviving a plane crash in the mountainous terrain.
The Shangri-La Hotel Singapore was managed by Westin Hotels & Resorts, until Shangri-La International Hotel Management Limited was founded in 1979, and management of the Singapore Shangri-La was taken back over from Westin in 1984. However, it would not be until 1991 that Shangri-La assumed control of the rest of the hotels. [6]
Kowloon Shangri-La: Shanghai Garden Restaurant: Hong Kong: Harcourt Road, Admiralty: Shinji by Kanesaka: Macau: City of Dreams: Sichuan Moon: Macau: Wynn Palace: Sing Kee Seafood Restaurant: Hong Kong: Sai Kung Tai Street branch: Spoon by Alain Ducasse: Hong Kong: InterContinental Hong Kong: closed [37] Spring Moon: Hong Kong: Peninsula Hotel ...
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Construction of Shangri La took place from 1936 to 1938, [1] [2] after Doris Duke's 1935 honeymoon which took her through the Islamic world. For nearly 60 years, Duke commissioned and collected artworks for the space, eventually forming a collection of over 4,000 objects. [3] The structure was designed by Marion Sims Wyeth.
U.S. Marine standing guard at Shangri-La (1944). The book, published in 1933, caught the notice of the public only after Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips was published in 1934. [citation needed] Lost Horizon became a huge popular success and in 1939 was published in paperback form, as Pocket Book #1, making it the first "mass-market" paperback.
Shangri-La Centre Ulaanbaatar is a mixed-use hotel and commercial complex located in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.The complex consists of three main buildings and a shopping mall, from which the Tower C completed in 2016 is the tallest building in Mongolia standing at 120 meters (390 ft) tall, being divided into 24 floors.