Forgotten Kingdom

Peter Goullart was brought up in the Orient

and spent most of his life there. This book describes his years in the

ancient forgotten Chinese kingdom of Nakhi in Yunnan, by the Tibetan

border, where, as a representative of the Chinese Industrial

Co-operatives, he really mixed with the people. 'This is a book about

paradise by a man who lived there for nine years. It is not easy to

write a good book about paradise, but people are Mr. Goullart's forte,

and when he mixes us up with the Nakhis he delivers us up to his

idyll. Lijiang itself, fits sunlight and its flowers and its rushing

waters, its wine shops and caravans, its glints of danger, its swagger

and its happy laughter, is really here.'