- Paperback: 228 pages
- Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (21 Sep 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719547261
- ISBN-13: 978-0719547263
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,425,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book gives an insight into the Thailand of today. It details the history, culture and contemporary predicament of a traditional Buddhist society struggling to preserve its integrity in the face of change. The author evokes the atmosphere of the country through descriptions of city and rural life where contradictions between old and new, sacred and profane constantly clash. This book may be of interest both to the armchair traveller and to the visitor. The author has also written "The Traveller's Key to Northern India".
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Fantasic!!, 28 Mar 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Thailand: The Lotus Kingdom (Paperback)
A great comprehensive book surrounding Thailand and it's culture. Especially interesting if you lived in Thailand as a foreigner for any part of time. Definetaly validated my experience there.
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Lively, insightful introduction to Thailand and its people, 19 Jun 2011
By Herve H. Blandin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Thailand: The Lotus Kingdom (Hardcover)
I recall reading this book when I first travelled to the "Lotus Kingdom", around the time the book itself came out. Alistair Shearer, a sure-footed traveller, who also has written a superb survey of north indian sacred architecture and religious sites geared as well to the traveller, achieves here a most insightful and penetrating foray into thai culture, that covers much ground, not just in helping define what could mean "being thai", but geographically as well.
His style is lively, not scholar, definitely closer to a travelogue than an essay, therefore perfect for the person wishing to introduce oneself to this most inviting place before (or during) a first trip, or the traveller back from Thailand, who will appreciate revisiting thru Shearer's account,the place and the uniqueness of its culture. While still learning more that would have escaped any visitor, even the most assiduous.
The book is about 20 years old, but it matters little. People and cultures do not change that much in 2 decades. It will read and prove of interest just as a writer's account of mid or late XXth century Paris or Roma would, to a 21st century visitor.
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