Travelers’ Tales Thailand: True Stories
- ISBN13: 9781885211750
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Winner of the Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book, this newly designed collection paints a unique portrait of a complex and captivating land. One contributor lives as a monk for a month, gaining an inside look at monastic life. Another discovers Bangkok’s riverine pleasures, a world away from its car-choked streets. Yet another finds refuge as the houseguest of an isolated tribesman. Through these engaging personal stories, readers witness how Thailand satisfies just about any traveler’s hunger for the exotic, the beautiful, the thrillingly different. Writers include Pico Iyer, Norman Lewis, Diane Summers, Simon Winchester, Ian Buruma, Thalia Zepatos, and Tim Ward. “The breadth and color of the collective portrait [the contributors] provide of Thailand is remarkable.” — Los Angeles Times… More >>
The powerful stories and insights from these Traveler’ Tales writers captures the essence of this beautiful country. To go to Thailand without the benefit of using this book would be a mistake. While writing my soon to be released memoir: A Broad Abroad in Thailand: An Expat’s Misadventures in The Land of Smiles, I referred to the book many times for spellings of exotic foods and places. As I paged through it, I was again moved by the poetic prose of the writers, and found myself reading on and on.
In my book, my last chapter says it all: “I have smelled the sensuous aromas, eaten the exotic food and continue to be awestruck by the ever-evolving weather cycles of this incredible country. I have prayed in Buddhist temples. I have seen boisterous bar girls as they cavorted with the farangs, and watched as they knelt in prayer at the temple. I have witnessed young monks praying in the temples for hours and have observed them laughing and watching TV as playful as young boys in the park.
Lord Buddha most assuredly blessed this beautiful and peaceful country. I believe that the uncomplaining Buddhist tolerance shapes both the lives of the people and the society of Thailand, and cannot help but touch the lives of foreigners who go there seeking asylum for their soul from a spiritually deaf world.
Thailand shares her beauty and many blessings with all foreigners, without prejudice, and calls them back in her own sensuous way. I will miss her crowded cities, dirty, polluted capital, peaceful people who accept all things in life, and her love of laughter and music.
I am eternally grateful that I was blessed to experience it.
Dodie Cross, author of “A Broad Abroad: An Expat’s Misadventures in the Land of Smiles”
Rating: 5 / 5
Great fun to read. I highly recommend if you’re thinking about goin there, or even traveling in general. It’s puts you right in the mind of the adventurer, and more than anything, lets you realize the world around you.
Rating: 4 / 5
Well..frankly i didn’t finish the book but after several pages reading i know it explain how thailand is, explain thai people really well. and i know just because well i’m one of them, i’m thai
Rating: 4 / 5
It’s not a travel guide at all, but it is more of a peek into the Thai culture. I really enjoyed reading the stories in this book, but I hardly made a dent in it, and then left it on the first leg of my flight to Bangkok from DC. Bummer.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is an outstanding book with vivid detail and compelling stories, most of which are true. It is a must for anyone interested in Thailand.
Rating: 5 / 5