Customs & Etiquette of Nepal (Book)

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I spotted this pocket-sized little fella at a bookstore in Walnut Creek while I waited for the “Mac Genius” to resuscitate my computer.

Geared toward people with even lower reading comprehension skills than I, the book is sort of an Ultra Super Extra Lite version of the Nepal “country study” that was sponsored by the U.S. Army. But I did learn some things:

  1. What’s the national weapon of Nepal?
  2. According to the 1991 census, how many languages are spoken in Nepal?
  3. Why hasn’t there been a more recent census?
  4. How tall is Mt. Everest?
  5. What’s Nepalese home-brew made of?

Two other items of note:

  • Lakshmi Prasad Devkota is among the most respected Nepali poets of the twentieth century. I’ll look him up.
  • It is illegal to hunt or kill the yeti, which has been declared “the property of the people.”

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1. khukuri, a curved knife used to chop wood, meat and vegetables
2. thirty-six
3. the Maoist conflict
4. 8,848 meters (29,028 feet)
5. rice, potatoes and wheat

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