Bhutan
Subtitle: [a visual odyssey across the last Himalayan kingdom]
By: conceived, designed, and produced by Michael Hawley.
Contributors: Friendly Planet (Organization); Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Publisher: Friendly Planet
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [Cambridge, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Bhutan -- Photographs
Genres: Photographs.
Notes: Published as the world's biggest book and certified by Guinness World Records in 2003. Weighs 133 pounds and opens to almost 5x7 feet. Each copy requires a roll of paper longer than a football field, more than a gallon of ink, and 24 hours printing time. The digitally printed pages are photographs with caption information.
Teams from MIT and Friendly Planet took four expeditions across Bhutan and collected some 40,000 photographs. The photographers included young Bhutanese people, guides, and students and staff of MIT and University of Washington.
Pages [1]-[2] feature map drawn by David Macaulay.
"For the young people of Bhutan."
Printed on double leaves.
Subtitle from MIT fact sheet.
LC copy is no. 14 of 500.
Gift; David Liddle; 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:016)