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
Gothic (Paradise Lost album) Gothic (Paradise Lost album) Gothic is the second full-length album released by British heavy metal band Paradise Lost. This album has been re-released twice, both of which contain remastered sound. The 2003 re-release of this album appended two remixes of songs from "Lost Paradise", bringing the total running time to 49 minutes and 30 seconds. Remixed/live versions of "Eternal", "Gothic" and "The Painless", appear on the 2003 digipak re-release of "Lost Paradise". In 2008, Gothic was re-released with a bonus DVD with a rare performance by the band. Allmusic gave "Gothic" a three star mixed review. In June 2005, "Gothic"