Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: The Golden Age
Chapter One: Building the Road to Kathmandu: Steps in the West’s Journey to the East
Chapter Two: Making Nepal a Destination: The Cultural Politics of Early Tourism
Chapter Three: Mountains, Monsters, and Monks: Nepal in the 1950s Western Popular Imagination
Chapter Four: The Key to an Oriental World: Boris Lissanevitch, Kathmandu's Royal Hotel, and the “Golden Age” of Tourism in Nepal
Chapter Five: Jung Bahadur Coapsingha: John Coapman, Hunting, and the Origins of Adventure Tourism in Nepal
Part 2: Hippie Nepal
Chapter Six: The Great Rucksack Revolution: Western Youth on the Road to Kathmandu
Chapter Seven: “Kathmandu or Bust”: Countercultural Longing and the Rise of Freak Street
Chapter Eight: “Something Big and Glorious and Magnificently Insane”: Hippie Kathmandu
Chapter Nine:
Hippie Ko Pala (The Age of Hippies)
Chapter Ten: Nepal’s Discovery of Tourism and the End of the Hippie Era
Part 3: Adventure Tourism
Chapter Eleven: Adventure Nepal: Trekking, Thamel, and the New Tourism
Chapter Twelve: Imbibing Eastern Wisdom: Nepal as Dharma Destination
References
Index