Description

In 1965 R R (Bob) Jordan was posted to Nepal the British Council’s English Language Officer His four years working there gave him a
lifelong interest m the Himalayan country manifesting itself in a major
collection of antiquarian and more recent books Early Encounters with Nepal
is a selection of extracts and information taken from his collection
and ranging from the first book about Nepal printed in English, An account
of the Kingdom of Nepaul by Colonel Kirkpatrick, published in 1811, through
to Sir Edmund Hillary’s conquest of Everest m 1953

The book does not set out to be a history of Nepal but illustrates
the wide-ranging contacts with the country by the outside world during
the years before it was open to tourists These include missionaries,
traders, soldiers, diplomats and officials, hunters and plant hunters,
royalty explorers and mountaineers