Radio Shangri-La
Subtitle: what I discovered on my accidental journey to the happiest kingdom on earth
By: Lisa Napoli
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780307453037
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-287).
Table of contents: title: The thunderbolt, part one; title: "Welcome, Jane!"; title: Radio Shangri-La; title: Beware the Emadatse; title: God of the night; title: Bhutan on the border, or, the start-up country; title: The symphony of love; title: My best friends in the world right now; title: The thunderbolt, part two; title: Dawn of democracy; title: America 101 : "that's cool!"; title: Baby-watch.