被遗忘的王国（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.

　　顾彼得，1901年出生于俄国，1941年由中国工业合作社委派到云南丽江，1949年离开，1975年病逝于新加坡。顾彼得精通俄语、英语、法语、汉语。主要著作有：《被遗忘的王国》（Forgotten Kingdom）1955；《玉皇山的道观》（The Monastery of Jade Mountain）1961年；《彝人首领》（Princes of the Black Bone：Life in the Tibetan Borderland）1959；《在马来西亚沙捞越地区的经历》等。