books.google.co.uk - Shangri-la. An arcadia hidden in a remote, secluded valley. A vast, wind-swept plain cradled among the far away peaks of the Orient. Tibet. Beginning almost as a mere rumor in the mid-eighteenth century, Tibet evolved over the next century of industrialization into one of the last great sacred places...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Myth_of_Shangri_La.html?id=Eddq5rZw0UoC&q=gold&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Myth of Shangri-La