Far out countercultural seekers and the tourist encounter in Nepal
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, Ka...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Chicago, London
The University of Chicago Press
2017
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Tourism
> History
> Hippies
> Travel
> Youth
> Public opinion
> Nepal
> Foreign public opinion
> Tourismus
> Hippie
> Rucksacktourismus
> Bergsteigen
> Bergwandern
> USA
> Nepalbild
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 387 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780226428949 978-0-226-42894-9 9780226428802 978-0-226-42880-2 |