Reis in Nepal

Le Bon, Gustave, 1841-1931Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

3.4

Word count: 115K words
Chapters: 12

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. Reis in Nepal by Gustave Le Bon. Author: Le Bon, Gustave, 1841-1931. Language: Dutch. Class: DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia. Release Date: Jun 22, 2005

Editor's review

This book is a Nepal travelogue written in Dutch by the French thinker Gustave Le Bon, digitized and preserved in the Project Gutenberg free eBook program. With the eye of a social psychologist, Le Bon records his travel observations; the book offers direct descriptions of life and customs in the Himalayan foothills while also carrying the imaginings and prejudices of a nineteenth-century European traveler toward the East, giving it value both as travel literature and as intellectual history. The electronic edition is simply formatted and easy to search and cite. It is suitable as further reading for those interested in Nepal's history and culture, early travel writing, or Le Bon's intellectual background. As a public-domain eBook, the full text is freely available; it can be read in full or selectively as research material, and compared with Le Bon's other works to observe how his crowd psychology is projected onto observations of foreign lands. Note that the book is in Dutch, so readers without Dutch will need translation tools.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Scholars studying Le Bon's thought and nineteenth-century European travel writing
Readers interested in Nepal's history, geography, and local customs
University students who need public-domain foreign-language source material for papers
Travel literature enthusiasts accustomed to using translation tools to read Dutch originals

Not a good fit for

Ordinary tourists seeking a simple Chinese-language Nepal travel guide
Readers with no foreign-language reading ability and no convenient access to translation tools
Those expecting a systematic introduction to contemporary Nepali society and travel information

Reading tips

First look up Le Bon's biography and the background of nineteenth-century European travel literature, then enter the text, to better understand his observational perspective.
Read chapter by chapter with translation software, and use maps to locate the place names and routes mentioned.
Compare the book's descriptions of local people with Le Bon's views in The Crowd, reading with annotations.

About the publisher

Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.

FAQ

What language is this book written in, and is it hard to read?

According to the data, the book is in Dutch and is a public-domain eBook. For readers unfamiliar with Dutch, direct reading poses some difficulty; it is advisable to use translation tools or consult related research materials, focusing on its value as travel observation and intellectual history.

Is this book suitable as a Nepal travel guide?

Not really. This is nineteenth-century travel writing focused on personal observation and period ideas, not practical contemporary information such as transport, accommodation, or attractions. For a travel guide, choose a modern guidebook; this book is better as historical and cultural background reading.

Why did Le Bon write a Nepal travelogue?

The data only shows that the book was written by Le Bon, in Dutch, and included in Project Gutenberg; it provides no specific explanation of his motivation. Readers may understand it in light of the European craze for exploring the East during Le Bon's time and his social psychology research background, but should not speculate about details not contained in the book.

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About the author

Le Bon, Gustave, 1841-1931 Author

Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931) was a French social psychologist best known for his work on crowd psychology. Six of his works are included in this collection. His representative work, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, together with its original French edition Psychologie des foules, examines how individuals' psychology changes within crowds and how conformity arises, and is regarded as a founding text of crowd psychology. The Psychology of Revolution analyzes revolutionary movements from a psychological perspective, Lois psychologiques de l'évolution des peuples examines national psychology and development, and Psychologie de l'éducation discusses psychological issues in education. Reis in Nepal is a travelogue on a different subject from his social-psychological works. Public information is limited, and details of his life are difficult to verify, but his works show a focus on social-psychological themes such as crowds, revolution, nations and education; his writing combines theoretical generalization with description of phenomena and has had a lasting influence on social psychology and popular-culture studies.