| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
The golden age. Building the road to Kathmandu: steps in the West's journey to the East -- Making Nepal a destination: the cultural politics of early tourism -- Mountains, monsters, and monks: Nepal in the 1950s Western popular imagination -- The key to an oriental world: Boris Lissanevitch, Kathmandu's Royal Hotel, and -- The "golden age" of tourism in Nepal -- Jung Bahadur Coapsingha: John Coapman, hunting, and the origins of adventure tourism in Nepal -- Hippie Nepal. The great rucksack revolution: Western youth on the road to Kathmandu -- "Kathmandu or bust": countercultural longing and the rise of Freak Street -- "Something big and glorious and magnificently insane": hippie Kathmandu -- Hippie ko pala (the age of hippies) -- Nepal's discovery of tourism and the end of the hippie era -- Adventure tourism. Adventure Nepal: trekking, thamel, and the new tourism -- Imbibing Eastern wisdom: Nepal as dharma destination |
| Summary |
'Far Out' examines how generations of counterculturally inclined Westerners have imagined Nepal as a land untainted by modernity and its capital, Kathmandu, a veritable synonym of Oriental Mystique |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Tourism -- Nepal -- History
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Hippies -- Travel -- Nepal -- History
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Youth -- Travel -- Nepal -- History
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Public opinion -- United States
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Public opinion -- Europe
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Public opinion
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Tourism
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Youth -- Travel
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Bergwandern
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Tourismus
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Rucksacktourismus
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Hippie
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Bergsteigen
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Nepalbild
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Nepal -- Foreign public opinion
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Europe
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Nepal
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226429137 |
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022642913X |
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