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The founders of Lonely Planet have written their autobiography, reflecting on over 30 years spent travelling the world and writing guidebooks to help others follow in their footsteps (more...)
Rough Guides has just published a brand new edition of their Rough Guide to Laos, their first guidebook update for Laos for 4 years (more...)
A sort-of sequel to "Pyongyang", "Shenzen" is another superb graphic novel from Guy Delisle, detailing the culture shock of his three months in one of China's most rapidly growing cities (more...)
The world's smallest country, Sealand, has just gone on sale. What better time to discover the scores of self-declared states around the world with Lonely Planet's latest, off-the-wall, travel guide (more...)
James Gandolfini, the actor behind Tony Soprano, is planning his first big movie beyond The Sopranos to be set and shot in Bangkok. It's going to be an adaptation of Jake Needham's novel The Big Mango. (more...)
The newest addition to Thailand's luxury hotels is the Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi in Chiang Mai. This isn't just a six star hotel however, but a conscious exercise in preserving Thailand's historic Lanna architecture and handicrafts (more...)
There's a plethora of books about Thailand - but which ones to read? Here's some of my favourite books about Thailand that will provide fascinating reading and also provide you with invaluable information if you visit Thailand (more...)
What would possess a middle aged English businessman to give up his wealthy, comfortable lifestyle in London and become a Buddhist monk living in one of the poorest districts of Thailand? In Phra Farang (Thai for "Western monk"), Phra Peter Pannapadipo, formerly Mr Peter Robinson, tries to explain what led him to such a radical change and what life as a Buddist monk is Thailand is like. (more...)
Publishing over 650 travel titles, Lonely Planet are responsible for a quarter of all travel guidebooks currently in print. The company came out about from Tony and Maureen Wheeler's self-published handbook "Across Asia on the Cheap" over 20 years ago. Here they discuss the startling success of their company (more...)
J. G. Ballard is one of the great British post-war writers, with a unique post-industrial aesthetic to his literary imagination. It's even generated its own adjective - "Ballardian". Seen through the lens of Ballard's work, Bangkok has its own distinctive Ballardian moments... (more...)
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