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Radio Shangri-La : what I learned in the happiest kingdom on earth / Lisa Napoli.

by Napoli, Lisa, 1963-

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Crown Publishers, c2010.

Napoli, Lisa, 1963- -- Travel -- Bhutan.

Bhutan -- Description and travel.

9780307453020 (hc.)

xx, 277 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-275).

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.

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.

Travel memoirs.

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