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Anarchy and Old Dogs
• Colin Cotterill
MYSTERY •
2008 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
An elderly man has been run down by a logging truck on the street in Vientiane just opposite the post office. His body is delivered to the morgue of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the official and only coroner of Laos. At the age of seventy-three, Siri is too old to be in awe of the new communist bureaucrats for whom he now works. Before he can identify the corpse, he must decipher a letter in the man's pocket -- it is written in invisible ink and in code. He was a blind retired dentist, his widow explains, and the enigmatic letters and numbers describe chess moves, but they are unlike any chess symbols Siri has previously encountered.
(LAO22, $13.00) |
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Angkor Map
• Dawn Rooney
GUIDEBOOK •
2007 •
PAPER
A site plan and pocket guide to Angkor, this folded map, at a scale of 1:40,000, includes inset photographs of major buildings, monuments and carvings. Banteay Sriei, and the temple of Angkor Wat, the Banyon and surroundings are shown at a scale of 1:15,000 on the reverse. With photographs and temple descriptions, it covers 22 key sites in all. With a map of Siem Reap.
(CBD16, $12.95) |
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Fodor's Bangkok's 25 Best
• Sylvie Franquet
• Anthony Sattin
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 128 PAGES
This slim guide to Bangkok includes an excellent pullout map of the center of the city along with essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing.
(TLD40, $11.99) |
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Footprint Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos
• Jack O'Tailan
• Claire Boobbyer
• John Colet
• Andrew Spooner
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 576 PAGES
A detailed, practical guide to Bangkok, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, filled with maps, background on attractions, practical information on transportation, food, activities and lodgings, and a handful of well selected photographs. About half the book focuses on Vietnam, but there is an extended chapter on Angkor and about 100 pages on Laos.
(SEA52, $25.95) |
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A Fortune-Teller Told Me, Earthbound Travels in the Far East
• Tizanio Terzani
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 371 PAGES
Grounded for a year, the peripatetic journalist (Italian-born, writing in German, and based in India) sets off by any other means to complete his rounds through Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Mongolia, China, Japan and other far-flung destinations. The result is this warm, anecdotal account of the character of the region. It's got to be the book most recommended to us on contemporary Asia.
(SEA35, $16.00) |
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In Search of Southeast Asia: a Modern History
• David P. Chandler
• David J. Steinberg
HISTORY •
1988 •
PAPER
• 590 PAGES
Written by seven historians of Asia, this scholarly overview of the social, economic and political history of Southeast Asia is an excellent introduction to the region. A popular text for courses on modern Southeast Asian history, the organizing theme of the book is the region's cultural adaptation to change. Parts 2, 4 & 5 are organized by country.
(SEA18, $34.00) |
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It's Easier Than You Think, The Buddhist Way to Happiness
• Sylvia Boorstein
RELIGION •
1997 •
PAPER
• 145 PAGES
Boorstein -- a practitioner of Buddhist meditation, psychotherapist and Jewish grandmother to boot -- here relates the basic tenets of Buddhism in her warmly engaging, anecdotal style. It's a good introduction to Buddhist teachings by a self-deprecating master.
(GEN264, $13.00) |
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Jewelry of Southeast Asia
• Anne Richter
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2000 •
HARD COVER
• 304 PAGES
An in-depth analysis of Southeast Asia's jewelry tradition that spans from the Neolithic and Bronze Age to the present, complemented by 350 full-color illustrations. Richter showcases more than 300 prized pieces and provides insightful commentary.
(SEA25, $75.00) |
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Laos and Cambodia Map
• ITMB
2006 •
MAP
A full color map of Laos and Cambodia for the traveler at a scale of 1:1, 200,000. With an index, and small inset maps of central Phnom Penh and Vientiane. Two Sides. 26x39 inches.
(LAO07, $12.95) |
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Love Songs from a Shallow Grave
• Colin Cotterill
MYSTERY •
2011 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
In a departure from the more playful earlier novels, Dr. Siri runs afoul of the genocidal Khmer Rouge in this latest. Will this be the end of our hero? We can't resist mentioning all eight of Cotterill's tales, the titles themselves make it worthwhile. The Coroner's Lunch (LAO21, $12.00) introduces the criminal underworld of communist Laos and the spiritual world of Dr. Siri's ancestors. Thirty-three Teeth (LAO20, $12.00) is set in the old royal capital of Luang Prabang. Dr. Siri (who also communes with spirits) takes up dancing in Disco for the Departed (LAO19, $12.00). Nurse Dtui, Phosy and Aunt Bpoo help solve the murder of a blind dentist in Anarchy and Old Dogs (LAO22, $12.00), which takes the team to Khong and a refugee camp in Thailand. Our hero is improbably asked to remove a curse on a Hmong village in Curse of the Pogo Stick (LAO18, $13.00). Cotterill even manages to squeeze mordant humor out of a serial killer wo woos and weds country girls in book number six, The Merry Misogynist (LAO23, $14.00). Dr. Siri is alive but not feeling so well in Slash & Burn (LAO27, $14.99), eighth in the series.
(LAO26, $14.99) |
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The Merry Misogynist
• Colin Cotterill
MYSTERY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
On a trip to the hinterlands, Siri investigates this unprecedented phenomenon -- a serial killer in peaceful Buddhist Laos -- only to discover when he has identified the murderer that not only pretty maidens are at risk. Seventy-three-year-old coroners can be victims, too. The sixth book in the series.
(LAO23, $14.00) |
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The Naked Tourist, In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall
• Lawrence Osborne
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
"It came upon me suddenly," Osborne reports, "like a mental disorder unknown to psychiatry: the desire to stop everything in normal life, to uproot, leave." And so he does, taking off on a six-month journey from Dubai to India, Bangkok, Bali and Papua New Guinea on the "Asian Highway." Osborne is not just interested in travel, but also in the reasons why we travel, layering his own entertaining adventures with ruminations on Shangri-La, The Grand Tour, the exotic and primitive.
(SEA50, $20.00) |
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A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia
• Morten Strange
FIELD GUIDE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 40 PAGES
This compact guide to the birds of Southeast Asia (including the Philippines and Borneo), features color photographs of 700 species with a concise description and distribution map for each bird. Introductory chapters cover birding in the region, seasonality, biogeography, and popular locations.
(SEA39, $38.95) |
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Rough Guide Laos
• Jeff Cranmer
GUIDEBOOK •
2007 •
PAPER
• 432 PAGES
This practical guide in the excellent British series includes a good historical and cultural overview.
(LAO16, $18.99) |
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Southeast Asia in the New International Era
• Clark Neher
HISTORY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
A good general history of the entire region and its place in the world. Written by a seasoned scholar, the book is now in its third edition.
(SEA17, $39.00) |
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Southeast Asia, A Concise History
• Mary Somers Heidhues
HISTORY •
2001 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
A lively, illustrated history of Southeast Asia, covering the politics, economics, society and culture of Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines. With 131 black-and-white illustrations and 11 maps.
(SEA26, $19.95) |
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Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia Map
• Nelles
2010 •
MAP
A convenient, double-sided map of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam at a scale of 1:1,500,000, with city maps of Hanoi, Vientiane, Ho Chi Minh City, Luang Prabang, and Phnom Penh. Includes the eastern portion of Thailand and Bangkok.
(SEA75, $13.95) |
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A Woman's Asia
• Marybeth Bond
ANTHOLOGY •
2005 •
PAPER
• 310 PAGES
These thirty-five personal, often hilarious accounts of women's adventures from China to Sri Lanka to Turkey to Bhutan, not only illuminating the everyday, oft-overlooked cultural practices of Asia, but also giving a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of the female traveller. Featuring selections from Jan Morris, Pamela Logan and Alison Wright.
(ASA49, $17.95) |
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