Planet Bhutan

Visiting Bhutan is an honour bestawed an the few who get to go. Here is a book that will help make you make the best of it.

Don Messerschmidt is an anthropologist and writer who has spent several decades studying local cultures, including pilgrimage, in the Nepal Himalaya.

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Bhutan

by Stan Armington

Lonely Planet Hawthorn (Australia), 1998

309 pp, USD 12.99

ISBN 0 86442 483 3

Bhutan is one of those South Asian destinations meant for a few hardy tourists, and even fewer researchers, scholars and development workers. Isolated geographically at the eastern end of the Himalaya, and culturally by a policy that discourages hordes of visitors, it remains a remote and intriguing place; the locals have limited access to the international media—national television and Internet will be arriving only later this year. Visiting Bhutan is an honour, and living and working here (as this reviewer does), all the more so. Thus, it's welcome that a new and truly well-written book about the country, its geography, history, culture and society, has appeared.

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