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Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand

Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand
  • Author(s): Jennifer S Alderson
  • Location(s): Nepal, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

The ride back to Kathmandu was comfortable and relaxing. There were more overturned trucks (the gas-powered ones seem to tip the most, I’m surprised there weren’t more explosions), goats being herded across the highway by ancient women, children playing...

Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia

Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia
  • Author(s): Frank Kusy
  • Location(s): India, Australia, London, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Humour
  • Era(s): 1980s

One man. Four continents. And a love-crazed travel writer going off the beaten track… In 1989, Frank Kusy found himself the unwilling love pawn of a booted and bodiced Boadicea on a Harley low rider. Then he fell in...

Overboard

Overboard
  • Author(s): Ivy Ngeow
  • Location(s): Cambodia, London, Singapore, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Thailand. An epic storm. A shipwreck. A white man has been found alive. But who is he? Suffering horrific injuries and burns, he is taken to a local hospital. He is mute. Everything is a blank. They tell him...

Passport to Death

Passport to Death
  • Author(s): Yigal Zur
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Dotan Naor Thriller Book 2 In a world of shadows, it is easy to get lost Dotan Naor, an Israeli private investigator, ousted from Shin Bet—Israel’s internal security service—goes to Thailand to find Sigal Bardon, a beautiful young...

Phra Farang

Phra Farang
  • Author(s): Phra Peter Pannapadipo
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 21st century

At forty-five, successful businessman Peter Robinson gave up his comfortable life in London to ordain as a Buddhist monk in Bangkok. But the new path he had chosen was not always as easy or as straightforward as he hoped...

Return to Paradise

Return to Paradise
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): Koh Phi Phi
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000 / contemporary

Some memories last a lifetime. Some secrets should stay buried. In 2000, four backpackers – Beth, Claire, Jez, and Max – meet on the sun-drenched shores of Phayom Beach, Thailand. Their gap year travels doing the banana pancake trail...

Return To The Go-Go

Return To The Go-Go
  • Author(s): William Peskett
  • Location(s): Pattaya, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Return to the Go-Go is the second volume of insights by Pattaya veteran Khun Pobaan into everyday life in Thailand’s extreme city. The first collection, If You Can’t Stand the Fun, Stay Out Of The Go-Go, gathered together essays...

Sacred Skin – Thailand’s Spirit Tattoos

Sacred Skin – Thailand’s Spirit Tattoos
  • Author(s): Tom Vater, Aroon Thaewchatturat
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sacred tattoos, called ‘sak yant’ in Thailand, have been around Southeast Asia for centuries and afford protection from accident, misfortune, and crime. Young women get tattooed with love charms in order to attract partners, while adolescent men use the...

She kept the bar between them

She kept the bar between them
  • Author(s): Steve Rosse
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories

With his eyes still closed he waited while she considered whether to serve him or throw him out. She approached him, and by the slowness of her approach he knew she had not made up her mind. He opened...

Silk Umbrellas

Silk Umbrellas
  • Author(s): Carolyn Marsden
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th century

Eleven-year-old Noi is learning to paint like her grandmother. She and her older sister, Ting, spend many rapt hours in the jungle watching as Kun Ya paints delicate silk umbrellas to sell at the market. But one day Kun...

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