No comments about Thailand (AA Key Guide) (AA Key Guide).

1 comments about Frontier Mosaic: Voices of Burma from the Lands In Between.

1. Not only is this book wonderfully written, but it is among the best resources I have found covering the situation on the Thai Burma Border.
   
   All profits go to the Mae Tao Clinic.

No comments about Khon Muang: People and Principles of North Thailand (Beautiful & Educational Books on the Peoples of South China).

2 comments about The Four Little Dragons.

1. This book while very much American in it's point of view is actually quite an informative background into the cultures of these SE Asian nations. The book takes you on a thinking tourists point of view while mixing interviews with personal points of view, you find yourself more informed as to what makes Americans different in their thinking to these other cultures as well as how we're very much driven by the same desires...though solving the quests for the objects of our desires quite differently. My wife and I visited these countries after reading this book and found the insights helpful in enjoying these cultures even more!



2. Full of terrible Asian stereotypes, and more about their sex tourism than Asia's economic growth. Not what I was expecting, and very offensive.

No comments about The Floating markets of Bangkok (Sunshine books).

No comments about Thailand with Your Family (Frommer's with Your Family).

No comments about Island Hopping Through the Andaman: And Other Travel Stories from Thailand.

No comments about A window on Isan, Thailand's northeast.

No comments about Khmer Civilization and Angkor (Orchid Guides).

1 comments about The Gentleman in the Parlor.

1. I've read this book a number of times, and I think that as with THE BRIDE OF SAN LUIS REY and a couple of other books, it is likely to be one of those books I read yearly, perhaps, or at least regularly, from here on in.
   
   THE GENTLEMAN is good company, and every page has something of interest on it. Yes, the Introduction is flashy, and a Master's Class in and of itself, for aspiring writers, but the entirety of the book, chapter by chapter, incident by incident, is a demonstration of what English prose can do well: it entertains as it informs. If one's taste has been corrupted by the Gee Whiz, Buzz-Word and media-clever sound bite slangadellic scribbling that passes for, well, writing nowadays, this simple book may come as a surprise and a heathy cure for bad reading habits (or addictions to trashy faddistic stuff) and may prepare the reader for a new direction in book-buying. And, rarest of all, and quite unexpected, this oyster bears within its unassuming flesh, a pearl of superlative price.