Russ Carpenter

This is a charming book of vignettes about Bhutanese culture, religion and customs; the authors have spent quite a lot of time in Bhutan, traveling and volunteering and clearly understand their subject as well as approach it with a sense of humor. Chapters run 5-10 pages and cover such subjects as "What do Monks Do?", "Tantra Demystified" and "Gross National What?". I read this before our trip but got so much more out of it upon a re-read after our return.