ISBN:
9780226428949
,
9780226428802
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 387 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
338.4/7915496
Keywords:
Tourism History
;
Hippies Travel
;
History
;
Youth Travel
;
History
;
Public opinion
;
Public opinion
;
Hippies
;
Public opinion
;
Tourism
;
Youth
;
Nepal
;
Nepal Foreign public opinion
;
Nepal
;
Tourismus
;
Hippie
;
Rucksacktourismus
;
Bergsteigen
;
Bergwandern
;
USA
;
Nepalbild
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
