James Hilton (novelist) picked "Lost Horizon" as its first title in 1939. For that reason, the novel is frequently called the book that began the "paperback revolution." Hilton is said to have been inspired to write "Lost Horizon", and to invent "Shangri-La" by reading the "National Geographic Magazine" articles of Joseph Rock, an Austrian-American botanist and ethnologist exploring the southwestern Chinese provinces and Tibetan borderlands. Still living in Britain at the time, Hilton was perhaps influenced by the Tibetan travel articles of early travellers in Tibet whose writings were found in the British Library. Christian Zeeman, the Danish father of the mathematician Christopher
Paradise Lost (Paradise Lost album) Paradise Lost (Paradise Lost album) Paradise Lost, the tenth studio album by British heavy metal band Paradise Lost, was recorded between January and June 2004 at Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire and Hollypark Lane, Los Angeles and was mixed, plus mastered at Green Jacket Studios. Although not officially, this is the first album with Jeff Singer (his official full-time membership in the band was on "The Enemy" single from the "In Requiem" album), who came after when the band was ready to release this album on an earlier date but postponed when they had no drummer. The band had songs such as