被遺忘的王國（英文版）

　　Thus， due to political upheavals， ended my stay， of almost nine years， in the little-known and all but forgotten ancient Nakhi Kingdom of south-west China. Even during my youth spent in Moscow and Paris ！ had been unaccountably attracted to Asia， her vast， little-explored mountains and her strange peoples and， especially， to mysterious Tibet. The Fates， stern to me in many other ways， have been kind in vouchsafing me long travels in Asia which even now， I have a feeling， are not at an end. I had always dreamed of finding， and living in that beautiful place， shut off from the world by its great mountains， which years later James Hilton conceived in his novel Lost Horizon. His hero found his 'Shangri-La' by accident. I found mine， by design and perseverance， in Likiang.

　　顧彼得，1901年出生于俄國，1941年由中國工業(yè)合作社委派到云南麗江，1949年離開，1975年病逝于新加坡。顧彼得精通俄語、英語、法語、漢語。主要著作有：《被遺忘的王國》（Forgotten Kingdom）1955；《玉皇山的道觀》（The Monastery of Jade Mountain）1961年；《彝人首領(lǐng)》（Princes of the Black Bone：Life in the Tibetan Borderland）1959；《在馬來西亞沙撈越地區(qū)的經(jīng)歷》等。