Footprint Thailand Handbook

Footprint's Thailand Handbook is the most informative and practical guidebook available to this fascinating, and sometimes perplexing, country where McDonald's and mobile phones sit side by side with saffron-clad monks and Brahmanic rites. Comprehensive coverage of accommodation and restaurants in Bangkok and other key destinations. Insider information on how to get off the well-mapped 'routes' to little known destinations in regions like the distinctive Northeast. Illuminating background information on Thailand's history and culture, the archaeological and artistic heritage and present-day politics and economics. Book jacket.

Joshua Eliot has a long-standing interest in Asia. He was born in India, brought up in Hong Kong and spent a year living in a small town in northeast Thailand in the early 1980s. Since then he has visited the country two or three times a year, partly for academic research and partly to update the new editions of this Handbook. He has written academic and children's books about the country and advised businessmen, given radio broadcasts and lectured on cruise liners. Jane Bickersteth first visited Thailand in 1980. She has since returned on numerous occasions to research and write about the country. As an artist, Jane has a particular interest in the material cultures of Thailand, and especially the Khmer art and architecture of the northeastern region.