Shangri-la

• “Explorers in the past century have set out to find Shambhala in Tibet, which is also where James Hilton placed it in his novel Lost Horizon under the name of Shangri-la.”

  FOXNews.com

• “She had pleased all her life, in her sphere this was still a vocation; her life had been all about remarks, about deciding whether the fence of talk led to the fiery furnaces of hell or to Shangri-la.”

  Simon & Schuster: Three Stages of Amazement

• “It could be Xanadu, Shangri-la, whatever, the official said.”

  The Washington Post: Federal agencies, contractors preparing for government shutdown

• “Curator Martin Brauen said that while the books appeal to the kid in all of us "I always thought it should be fun to go to a museum", the collection provokes a more adult consideration of "our stereotypes, our notions of Shangri-la, and some weird theories about Tibet and its inhabitants.”

  The Wall Street Journal: What's That in the Sky? The Himalayas

• “Hav joins Shangri-la and Brobdingnag in the atlas of inspiration.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Visiting a Land Beyond Fodor's Reach

• “The new science fiction anime show, Shangri-la, just began its run on Japanese TV.”

  April 2009

• “Thirty-one casualties were confirmed by police in the "Shangri-la" northeastern Indian state of Sikkim, the epicenter of Sunday night's quake.”

  The Huffington Post: Magnitude 6.8 quake in India, several dead

• “It is the ultimate Shangri-la, the most beautiful Caribbean island.”

  The Huffington Post: Dwight Brown: St. Lucia -- The Shangri-la Caribbean Island

• “But did you notice that each one of these Shangri-la's was visited by a catastrophic act of nature sometime in the not so distant past?”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Judith Rich: Braving The Storms of Change

• “A rose-lover's Shangri-la: the village of Grignan.”

  French history

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