Bhután es un país pequeñín al lado de Nepal. País que entre otras cosas tiene el honor de ser el tema del libro más grande del mundo, llamado apropiadamente Bhutan. De metro y medio por metro diez de superficie, y un grosor de 15 centímetros, es realmente un librillo pesado de llevar. El libro se puede incluso comprar en Amazon.com (vale 10.000 dólares) y aparentemente es una maravilla técnica además de humana:
The book Bhutan is a visual odyssey across the kingdom. Teams from MIT and Friendly Planet took over 40,000 photographs on four extensive expeditions across the country. They flew by helicopter, rode mountain ponies, trekked with packhorses and yaks, and journeyed by caravan on far-flung roads and foot trails across the Bhutanese Himalaya. Local students, like Choki Lhamo (a 14-year-old girl from Trongsa who aspires to become a doctor) and Gyelsey Loday (the son of the head lama in the village of Phongmey), joined these ambitious trips and helped with the photography in order to share a corner of their world. The stunning imagery in the book loosely follows these journeys. Portraits of people are life-size (or bigger). Panoramas convey some of the staggering sweep of the mountains and the awesome ancient architecture.
Por cierto, un cliente de Amazon se queja:
I was on the 73 bus on the way to my job at McDonald’s and was thrown off the bus because the driver said my copy of this book was so big he couldn’t see in his rearview mirror. Some kind of «safety hazard» according to him.
Sure, it’s a great book and all, but if you can’t take it along to read on the bus, what good is it?
Es lo que tienen estas cosas.