The picture is of a 16th century image from Thomas Moore's book UTOPIA. Oscar Wilde once wrote, "A map of the world that does not
Include Utopia is not even worth glancing at."
All this is on my mind as I listened to LOST HORIZON on my drive to Manhattan, and I have been skimming an interesting and highly unusual sort of travel guide, SHANGRI-LA; a travel guide to the Himalayan dream.