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Publisher | : River Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9786164510340 |
A unique angle on a city popular with tourists This stunning black and white photographic book takes us on a journey through the forgotten backstreets and hidden neighborhoods of Bangkok revealing the fragile beauty and faded charm of the city that is about to disappear forever beneath a tidal wave of development. From the splendid Old Customs House perched on the banks of the Chao Phraya river to the vibrant communities of Chinatown and sleepy canals lost in time, it evokes a city that despite successive waves of modernization still boasts an extraordinarily rich and diverse cultural heritage.
Author | : Eric Rogers |
Publisher | : Exotic |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780615424217 |
Author | : Surat ʻŌsathānukhro̜ |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Bangkok (Thailand) |
ISBN | : 9789749311189 |
Author | : John Burdett |
Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2004-07-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1400032903 |
A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world’s most exotic cities. Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the only two cops in the city not on the take, but within moments one is murdered and his partner, Sonchai Jitpleecheep—a devout Buddhist and the son of a Thai bar girl and a long-gone Vietnam War G.I.—is hell-bent on wreaking revenge. On a vigilante mission to capture his partner’s murderer, Sonchai is begrudgingly paired with a beautiful FBI agent named Jones and captures her heart in the process. In a city fueled by illicit drugs and infinite corruption, prostitution and priceless art, Sonchai’s quest for vengeance takes him into a world much more sinister than he could have ever imagined.
Author | : Maryvelma Smith O'Neil |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195342518 |
In this vibrant cultural history, Maryvelma O'Neil takes us on an engaging tour of Bangkok, revealing the rich ancient heritage of this fascinating city. The capital of the Kingdom of Thailand, Bangkok stands out as a place of extraordinary allure. Beginning as a floating city in a lush tropical setting, known to foreigners as the "Venice of the East," its majestic Grand Palace and glittering Buddhist temples today compete with chimneystacks and a jungle of skyscrapers. O'Neil illuminates a city rich in art, history, royal ceremony, and tradition and she uncovers fascinating pockets of traditional indigenous life and places of intense beauty hidden in Bangkok's labyrinthine lanes and alleys.
Author | : Janet McKelpin |
Publisher | : ThingsAsian Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1934159212 |
Bangkok is a city that moves too quickly to be pinned down. Life is a constant game of hide-and-seek, of places lost and found. The heart of the city is easy to overlook in the heat and blare and glitz of the place, but has been captured in Lost & Found Bangkok by five photographers who live there and love it.
Author | : John Burdett |
Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2008-06-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1400097061 |
Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo, returns in this blistering novel.Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but nothing like the snuff film he's just been sent anonymously. Furiously fast-paced and laced through with an erotic ghost story that gives a new dark twist to the life of our hero, Bangkok Haunts more than lives up to the smart and darkly funny originality of its predecessors.
Author | : Alec Waugh |
Publisher | : W.H. Allen |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
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A fluent and affectionate portrait not only of the city of Bangkok, known to the Thais as 'the city of angels', but also of the dynasty and culture that created it. Cutting through confusion and veiled mystery. Waugh unravels the plots, coups, wars, assassinations, invasions, and counter-coups of two hundred years of history as if they were this evening's gossip. This description of the genius, fascination, and enduring vitality of Bangkok is told with Waugh's customary delight in life and sensual appreciation.
Author | : John Burdett |
Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2016-07-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307474305 |
Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is called to investigate a crime scene in Bangkok—which quickly reveals itself to be anything but typical in this “intelligent, high-octane psychological thriller" (New York Journal of Books). For one thing, the victim has been beheaded in a bizarre manner, and for another, a message was left in blood. Then Sonchai is summoned to a river in the middle of the night to observe a spectacle that violates everything he holds dear as a Thai, as a Buddhist, and as a human being. A trail of breadcrumbs has been carefully laid out for him, but by whom? Sonchai’s search for answers takes him deep into the Cambodian jungle, where he faces a conspiracy that may implicate the American CIA and the Chinese military—and discovers exactly how far a government will go to protect its worst secrets.
Author | : Timothy Hallinan |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061844675 |
An expat detective in Bangkok discovers the dark truths beneath the surface of his chosen home in this “fast, bold, and beautifully written” thriller (T. Jefferson Parker). Travel writer Poke Rafferty was good at looking for trouble—so good that he made a little money writing a few offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored. But that was before Bangkok stole his heart. Now the expat American is happily playing family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and with Miaow, the wary street child he wants to adopt. But settling down won’t be as easy as it seems . . . First, Poke takes in Miaow’s friend, a troubled and terrifying street urchin named Superman. Then he agrees to help an Aussie woman find her missing uncle—and accepts an old woman’s generous payment to find a blackmailing thief. Soon, these three seemingly disparate events begin to overlap, pulling Poke into dark, unfamiliar terrain. Poke soon comes to realize that he’s been gliding across the surface of a culture he really doesn’t understand—and that what he doesn’t know is about to hurt him and everyone he loves.