Video Night in Kathmandu (58 page)

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First Vintage Departures Edition, June 1989

Copyright © 1988 by Pico Iyer

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published, in hardcover, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1988.

A portion of this work originally appeared in The Condé Nast Traveler.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: ABKCO Music, Inc.: Excerpts from the song lyrics “Only Sixteen,” words and music by Sam Cooke. Copyright © 1959 by ABKCO Music, Inc. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Cherry Lane Music Publishing Company, Inc.: Excerpt from the song lyrics “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver. Copyright © 1971 by Cherry Lane Music Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Paul Simon Music: Excerpt from the song lyrics “The Boxer,” by Paul Simon. Copyright © 1968 by Paul Simon. Used by permission.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Iyer, Pico.
Video night in Kathmandu: and other reports from the not-
so-far East/Pico Iyer. – 1st Vintage departures ed.
p. cm. – (Vintage departures)
eISBN: 978-0-307-76190-3
1. Asia – Description and travel – 1951–   2. East and West.
3. Iyer, Pico – Journeys – Asia. I. Title.
[DS10.187 1989]
950′.428 – dc19                                            88-40359

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