"I walked out the door, a bit dazed. I had ten dollars and two not-quite diamonds, and it was summer in Siam." John Borthwick's first day in Thailand seemed far from auspicious — but it has been uphill from then on. Dropping him in the middle of everything from three-day tribal weddings, elephant polo follies and pristine islands to Pattaya's bacchanalian nightlife, Thailand has kept John and his pen constantly on the move.
One of Australia's leading travel authors, John Borthwick has gathered here the best of his years of Thailand adventures, plus a swag of vivid tales from his wanderings in India, Xinjiang, the Himalayas, Borneo, Bali, Laos, Vietnam and the Philippines.
- Magic Dogs and Battery Clocks
- Smoke on the Water: Fire Boats at Nakhon Phanom
- Between Heaven and a Honda
- Tiger Time at the Forest Temple
- Pattaya Scheherazade I:
Falang Gong Night at the Groundhog Bar
- Pattaya Scheherazade II:
Groundhog Night at the Falang Gong Bar
- Sleeping With Genius
- Retro-Rajing with the Rich and Aimless
- The E&O Express Rerun
- The World's Wettest New Year
etc.
"John! I've been reading your essays, and they make me fiil positively ashamed. How marvellously adventurous you people are! And how naturally good you are at getting inside a situation in a few paragraphs. It all makes delightful reading. Thank you!"
-- Jan Morris OBE, on The Circumference of the Knowable World. --