Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal

Chautari Book Series - 94

Contents

• Preface - ix
• Acknowledgments - xiii

Part One: The Golden Age

         1. Building the Road to Kathmandu: Steps in the West’s Journey to the East - 3

         2. Making Nepal a Destination: The Cultural Politics of Early Tourism - 26

         3. Mountains, Monsters, and Monks: Nepal in the 1950s Western Popular Imagination - 45

         4. The Key to an Oriental World: Boris Lissanevitch, Kathmandu’s Royal Hotel, and the “Golden Age” of Tourism in Nepal - 64

         5. Jung Bahadur Coapsingha: John Coapman, Hunting, and the Origins of Adventure Tourism in Nepal - 94

Part Two: Hippie Nepal

         6. The Great Rucksack Revolution: Western Youth on the Road to Kathmandu - 129

         7. “Kathmandu or Bust”: Countercultural Longing and the Rise of Freak Street - 164

         8. “Something Bog and Glorious and Magnificently Insane”: Hippie Kathmandu - 200

         9. Hippie ko Pala (The Age of Hippie) - 235

         10. Nepal’s Discovery of Tourism and the End of the Hippie Era - 271

Part Three: Adventure Tourism

         11. Adventure Nepal: Trekking, Thamel, and the New Tourism - 297

         12. Imbibing Easter Wisdom: Nepal as Dharma Destination - 323

• Reference - 367
• Index - 383