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Summary: Travelers' Tales Nepal
Review: "Always refreshingly honest, here is a collection that explains why Western travelers fall in love with Nepal and return again and again."-Barbara Crosette, New York Times correspondent and author of So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas"The Travelers' Tales series puts together the best essays from the world's wanderers, and they've done it again with these stories from Nepal. Bring it on the plane, and your adventure will start even before you arrive."-Yoga Journal
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Summary: A great supplement to any travel book like Lonely planet!
Review: I loved this book, it was a great travel book. This book gave me insights into the culture and beliefs of Nepal, not just places to stay or to eat like most travel books. All of the stories were unique and made me really excited to hop on a plane and travel there. With this book I know what to expect once I get there and know enough not to offend their culture as an American. I recommend using this to supplement a Fromer's or Lonely planet travel book.
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Summary: A great supplement to any travel book like Lonely planet!
Review: I loved this book, it was a great travel book. This book gave me insights into the culture and beliefs of Nepal, not just places to stay or to eat like most travel books. All of the stories were unique and made me really excited to hop on a plane and travel there. With this book I know what to expect once I get there and know enough not to offend their culture as an American. I recommend using this to supplement a Fromer's or Lonely planet travel book.
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Summary: encompasses all the diverse aspects of Nepal
Review: Reading this book is indeed a great experience. I am really thankful that people abroad have made the effort to introduce Nepal's romantic realities to the world. I am sure that anyone who wants to know about Nepal would definitely benefit from this book. I am glad that I bought this book and learnt so much about my own country. To be honest though being a native, I was not familiar with the panoromic details about Nepal that the book has captured. After reading various tales collected in the book I am inspired to visit those beautiful places and experience the joy myself.
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Summary: Essential for anyone interested in Nepal
Review: This collection of essays and excerpts about Nepal and her people greatly exceeded my expecations. The editor displayed refreshingly high standards when it came to picking which authors to include. The writing is of high quality, and the vast range of works included gives you an thorough, unvarnished look at all aspects of life and travel in Nepal. Taken together the entries accomplish the difficult task of helping the visitor-to--be know what it will FEEL like to be there. You just don't get this kind of stuff out of guidebooks. The book has enhanced my trip preparations and brought my excitement about going to Nepal to a fever pitch. I highly recommend this to anyone about to make a similar journey. I hope to find more books in this series available for all the other countries on my travel wish list.
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Summary: Essential for anyone interested in Nepal
Review: This collection of essays and excerpts about Nepal and her people greatly exceeded my expecations. The editor displayed refreshingly high standards when it came to picking which authors to include. The writing is of high quality, and the vast range of works included gives you an thorough, unvarnished look at all aspects of life and travel in Nepal. Taken together the entries accomplish the difficult task of helping the visitor-to--be know what it will FEEL like to be there. You just don't get this kind of stuff out of guidebooks. The book has enhanced my trip preparations and brought my excitement about going to Nepal to a fever pitch. I highly recommend this to anyone about to make a similar journey. I hope to find more books in this series available for all the other countries on my travel wish list.
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Summary: Funny stories
Review: This is the book to read when you are sitting around in Pokhara by the lake, or hanging out in your hotel room. Full of the quirky flavor of travel in Nepal. And yes, of course, I'm biased -- I wrote one of the stories in it -- but I don't make any money by getting you to buy it. Just like the book and want it to stay in print!
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Summary: Funny stories
Review: This is the book to read when you are sitting around in Pokhara by the lake, or hanging out in your hotel room. Full of the quirky flavor of travel in Nepal. And yes, of course, I'm biased -- I wrote one of the stories in it -- but I don't make any money by getting you to buy it. Just like the book and want it to stay in print!
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Summary: A charming cultural portrait of a fascinating land
Review: Traveler's Tales is the postmodern guidebook. Instead of lists of iteneraries, temple admission prices and grainy photos, the authors of this book allow the reader to imagine Nepal in all of its tantalizing fullness. The excerpts selected range on topic and style, but all present unique aspects of the Nepali experience-- rural and urban, male and female, touristic and holistic. In opening the pages you can smell the spice markets, hear the chants of priests, feel the grinding poverty, inhale the crystalline Himalayan air and allow yourself to be carried down the narrow alleys of Pokhara. After reading Traveler's Tales: Nepal, I assue you you'll immediately run to Expedia to check fares to Kathmandu.
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Summary: Why I'm going back there again.
Review: Why is Nepal so magical that people keep on coming back ? Well, you may find the answers after reading the wonderful collection of short stories. I liked it because the stories selected were, most importantly easy to read and short enough for busy people.Inside the 5 chapters you'll find writers like Peter Matthiesen (The Snow Leopard) and Manjushree Thapa (Meanderings in Mustang), both of whom were privileged enough to enter the forbidden lands I got so close to (I only got as far in as Kagbeni,Lower Mustang !). I found Broughton Coburn's (A Nosy neighbor) account of his encounter with a leech most enlightening and amusing. Tears flowed forth after reading Robert J Matthews's (A Simple Gift) and Allan Aistrope's (Virtue's Children), if you've been there you'll know why.Having gone trekking I'd certainly put Jack Bennett's (The Art of Walking) into good use the next time. In Susan Vreeland's (Do Buddhists Cry?), you get an insight of the selflessness of the native people there and you begin to wonder if we really are the more civilized ?. I thought that the addition of short quotes and highlights from other writers added in-between and at the end of each stories were nice, as at a glance you see how others fared in similar fates. My ambitions of writing a journal of my visit is out the window - I'll just share this book to anyone who wants to know how I felt exactly when I was there.Buy this book !
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