Travelers' Tales Thailand
Travelers' Tales Thailand

Author: James O'Reilly

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 2009-11-01

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 1932361804

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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

Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Author: James O'Reilly

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9781885211033

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"We've collected useful and memorable stories to produce the kind of sampler we've always wanted to read before setting out. These stories will show you a spectrum of experiences to be had or avoided in Hong Kong"--Back cover

Bizarre Thailand
Bizarre Thailand

Author: Jim Algie

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

Published: 2011-04-15

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9814351865

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Bizarre Thailand takes readers off the well-rutted road of tourist hotspots into the darkest and sexiest hinterlands. Welcome to a twilight zone where travellers become soldiers and cowboys, a black magician courts politicians and film stars, sacred tortoises mate on the streets of a small town, and Fertility Goddesses are wooed with massive phalluses.In this strange land, nothing is what it seems: a prison becomes a tourist attraction, a 20-storey robot is a building, a man becomes a beauty queen, a Buddhist temple turns into hell on earth, a loving wife is immortalized as the most famous and ferocious of all phantoms, and a serial killer’s corpse is reincarnated as a museum exhibit.Bizarre Thailand takes an irreverent look at how the profound, profane and frankly quite odd intertwine with the rhythms and flows of everyday Thai life, paying homage to the quintessential culture of one of Southeast Asia's most captivating destinations.

The Soul of a Great Traveler
The Soul of a Great Traveler

Author: James O'Reilly

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1609521242

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For ten years the editors of Travelers' Tales have run a writing competition to find the best travel story of the year: The Solas Awards. Over those years, thousands of stories have come across their desks, from writers famous and unknown, covering all corners of the globe with stories of adventure and discovery, love and loss, humor and absurdity, grief and joy. In this collection appear all of the top prize winners of the last ten years, stories that bring readers along for journeys that are inspiring, uplifting, and, very often, transformative. These tales are powerful, moving testaments to the richness of our world, its cultures, people, and places. In this book, readers will: Deposit a loved one's ashes in a Bolivian River Find the Celtic soul you never knew you had in rural Ireland Grope through the maze of sorcery and madness in Cameroon Rediscover your sense of self on a return to Russia after many years away Follow the spirit of John Wesley Powell down the Grand Canyon in Arizona Engage loss and the specter of death in Mexico Face your deepest fears alone in an Alaskan winter Encounter the realities of prostitution in Thailand Absorb the rhythms and soul of Flamenco in Spain Fall in love with a home in rural France and make it your own... and much more

Travelers' Tales
Travelers' Tales

Author: Michael Newton

Publisher: Galde Press, Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9781931942027

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A modern aviator crashes in the Sahara--and finds himself in the middle of WW II. A conoisseur of classic Japanese culture finds a priceless artifact in the midst of modernization. Future space travelers discover the diary of the last man on Earth. Nine engrossing and poignant tales of human nature told by the author of Destiny of Souls.

All About Thailand
All About Thailand

Author: Elaine Russell

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2016-11-08

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1462918727

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All About Thailand is a new Thai book for kids ages 8 to 12 which brings you on an incredible journey to exotic Thailand. Thailand is a place where a modern culture thrives in one of the world's most ancient countries. Your guides in this adventure are two Thai children: Mali is a 9-year-old girl from the countryside and Tawan is an 11-year old boy from Bangkok. Travel with them as they explore their land--experienced its fascinating wildlife, beautiful handcrafts, sports, games, celebrations and, of course--great Thai food! They'll give you a glimpse of what it's really like to live in Thailand and they'll show you all the things that kids in Thailand love to do. With this Thai culture and history-for-kids book readers will: Visit with elephants and monkeys Learn new fun and challenging games Share Thai myth, fairy tales and fables Get a taste of the Thai language and learn a song or two Make things that let you experience Thailand's beliefs, celebrations and culture Experience the unique flavors of Thailand with a few easy, yummy recipes And lots more! Along with fun facts, you'll learn about the spirit of the Thailand that makes this country and its people totally unique. This is a book for parents and kids to enjoy together!

Marco Polo Didn't Go There
Marco Polo Didn't Go There

Author: Rolf Potts

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 2009-04-01

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1932361715

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Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called “Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.” For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications as National Geographic Traveler, Salon.com, and The New York Times Magazine. This book documents his boldest, funniest, and most revealing journeys—from getting stranded without water in the Libyan desert, to crashing the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand, to learning the secrets of Tantric sex in a dubious Indian ashram. Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is more than just an entertaining journey into fascinating corners of the world. The book is a unique window into travel writing, with each chapter containing a “commentary track”—endnotes that reveal the ragged edges behind the experience and creation of each tale. Offbeat and insightful, this book is an engrossing read for students of travel writing as well as armchair wanderers.

Natural Opium
Natural Opium

Author: Diane Johnson

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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"The widely acclaimed novelist, essayist, and cultural and social critic is one of the characters in these ten striking pieces, each of which is part memoir, part short story, part sharp observation of the world today." "This is a book about contemporary travelers in far-flung places, about the inner compulsion to travel, and about the condition of being a traveler. For the past ten years, Diane Johnson has roamed the world from Taipei to Tanzania to Teheran, from St. Petersburg and Bangkok to Delhi and the Great Barrier Reef. In these pieces she answers dramatically, and with a constantly refreshing wit, the question of why we travel and how travel changes us." "In Switzerland, the travelers' willingness to face danger in the name of adventure is made clear as a festive midnight toboggan ride turns into a terrifying slide through a pathless forest ... in London, the author's physician husband discovers that the patient whose life he is in the middle of saving is an international drug lord ... en route from her daughter's wedding in Paris to her son's in Taipei, the author glimpses a Russia she thought no longer existed." "Full of humor and with a nonstop storytelling pull, Natural Opium is a new kind of travel book, pure Diane Johnson."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Travelers' Tales Greece
Travelers' Tales Greece

Author: Larry Habegger

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781885211996

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"True stories by Paul Theroux, Caroline Alexander, Lawrence Durrell, Patricia Storace, Robert D. Kaplan, Henry Miller, and many more"--Cover.