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1 online resource |
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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 -- 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. 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tourism -- Nepal -- History.
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Tourism. |
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Nepal. |
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History. |
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Hippies -- Travel -- Nepal -- History.
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Hippies. |
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Travel. |
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Youth -- Travel -- Nepal -- History.
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Nepal -- Foreign public opinion.
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Public opinion -- United States.
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Public opinion. |
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Youth -- Travel. |
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Public opinion -- Europe.
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Europe. |
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United States. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Youth. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780226428802 022642880X (DLC) 2016028699 (OCoLC)952226945 |
| ISBN |
9780226429137 (electronic book) |
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022642913X (electronic book) |
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9780226428802 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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022642880X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226428949 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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022642894X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40026905525 |
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