Review of Pradyumna P. Karan and Hiroshi Ishii, Nepal: Development and Change in a Landlocked Himalayan Kingdom

Authors

Robert Stoddard, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

Summer 1994

Comments

Published in JOURNAL OF CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY 14:2 (Summer 1994), pp. 107-109. Copyright 1994 Bowling Green State University Popular Press.

Abstract

The authors of this book have successfully provided "an outline of some of the crucial issues facing the country" (p. v), one of their declared aims. By examining Nepal's landlocked setting, natural resources, forests, agriculture, industry, transportation systems, demographic characteristics, cultural patterns, settlement patterns, and tourism, the two authors and four collaborators have summarized many current conditions. The inclusion of numerous statistics reinforces the discussion, as well as giving readers a useful collection of data about contemporary Nepal (although the lack of an index diminishes their accessibility somewhat).