Radio Shangri-La

What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth

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Radio Shangri-La

What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth

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Describes how a midlife crisis and chance encounter prompted the author's relocation to Bhutan, where she volunteered at the country's first youth radio station and witnessed the rapid changes in the culture of a country just beginning to open up to the modern world.

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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Language
English
Pages
277

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Table of Contents

Preface : three good things
The thunderbolt, part one
"Welcome, Jane!"
Radio Shangri-La
Beware the emadatse
God of the night
Bhutan on the border, or, the start-up country
The symphony of love
My best friends in the world right now
The thunderbolt, part two
Dawn of democracy
America 101 : "that's cool!"
Baby-watch.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
954.98, B
Library of Congress
DS491.5 .N37 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
277

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23972159M
ISBN 13
9780307453020
LCCN
2009049176
OCLC/WorldCat
473654743

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15670847W

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