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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2018. Learning to read Thai is the path to a more profound grasp of the language. This book is based on years of experience teaching foreigners to speak and read Thai, and builds on the author's observations in the classroom about which rules of grammar, spelling and pronunciation most commonly impede their progress. Introduction to Thai Reading,… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2021. Written to meet the need of students and teachers of the Thai language for information on the advanced sentence structure of the language. The book will be welcomed by anyone learning the language past the beginning level and is an essential reference work for libraries and universities with an interest in Asia. Designed as a practical… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2006. Subtitle: 'According to Portuguese and Spanish Sources'. Groslier's seminal study of the accounts of early Spanish and Portuguese missionaries and adventurers in Cambodia was published in French in 1958, and is translated here into English for the first time. The reports of the Europeans record the earliest surviving first-hand accounts of Angkor, following the 'rediscovery'… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2000. Subtitled 'Thai Politics from February 1991 to September 1992 - A Struggle for Democracy ?' A detailed account of a watershed period in recent Thai political development, from the military coup of 1991 through to the electoral victory of democratic forces the following year. With introduction by Withaya Sucharithanarugse. xxvii, 314 pp., 15 figures, 50… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 1995. Description of the southern Thai popular tradition of shadow theatre and its differences with the central Thai classical school; illustrated with 147 examples of shadow figures from two Thai and two Swedish collections. 109 pp., 79 colour and 68 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/new. 21 x 19 cm.

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2005. Thailand. The name evokes images of golden pagodas, emerald rice fields, jungled mountains, a happy, gregarious people. Siamese Bestiary reveals another aspect of Thailand--the intimate coexistence shared by animal and human life in the tropics. Lizards play hide-and-seek on walls and ceilings; frogs colonize bathrooms and crabs doze behind water jars; turtles make nocturnal visits; snakes… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2008. Written to meet the need of students and teachers of the Thai language for information on the advanced sentence structure of the language. The book will be welcomed by anyone learning the language past the beginning level and is an essential reference work for libraries and universities with an interest in Asia. Designed as a… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2002. A Siamese Fairy Tale was Maugham's contribution to the library of Queen Mary's Doll House; he, along with 199 other well known authors of the day wrote a contribution into a miniature leather bound edition in his own hand. The tale itself was first written in 1922 and published in Pearson's Magazine; subsequently it was incorporated… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2001. Since the repressive Burmese military regime seized power in 1962, the Burmese people have suffered untold misery and increasingly intolerable living conditions. For many, flight to Thailand has become a saviour, not only just to earn money on which to live but merely to survive. On the Thai side of the border, some have faced almost… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2016. Maugham's tale of travel through Burma, Indochina and Siam in the 1920's, told with all of the empathy and sharp-eyed observation of human nature for which the author eventually became legendary. Reprint of the 1930 edition with new introduction by H. K. Kuloy. 254 pp.. Reprint. Soft Cover. New. 20 x 13.3 cm.

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2003. A series of 'portraits' of the people who comprise the mosaic of a typical northeastern Thai village describes such characters as 'the half-Chinese', 'the fortune teller', 'Miss Cotton Bud', 'native entrepreneur' and 'Bar Boy'. Interspersed between these portraits are 'themes', such as gambling, Songkran, electricity and noise, providing an informative overview of the background, activities and… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2002. The coup d'état of 18 May, 1688 in the Siamese 'Versailles' at Lopburi led to the establishment of the last Ayutthayan dynasty. But it was not just another internal palace coup in face of the imminent death of the reigning monarch, Narai. For the King's favourite, Phaulkon, had been instrumental in bringing a French expeditionary force… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 1999. Subtitle : 'Performed by Six Jesuits Sent by the French King to the Indies and China in the Year 1685'. An account of a Jesuit mission to Siam in 1685, doomed to failure by indiscreet attempts to convert the Siamese King to Catholicism, ignoring the King's desire to focus on political and commercial relations. Reprint of… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2000. This delightful set of three small books outline in simple, but never simplistic, terms, the life of the Buddha, Buddhist teaching and monastic life in Thailand. The author lived in Chiang Mai for many years before his untimely death in 1995. His views are based on extensive reading on the sources of Buddhism, intensive interviews with… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2018. Learning to read Thai is the path to a more profound grasp of the language. This book is based on years of experience teaching foreigners to speak and read Thai, and builds on the author's observations in the classroom about which rules of grammar, spelling and pronunciation most commonly impede their progress. Introduction to Thai Reading,… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2018. For the new arrival to Thailand, nothing seems more impenetrable than the local language. Phrasebooks abound, but how does one begin to master the unique sounds of the language, required of the very first Thai words the visitor attempts? Let’s Speak Thai is a phrasebook / dictionary with a difference. In addition to tackling all of… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2006. Subtitle: 'According to Portuguese and Spanish Sources'. Groslier's seminal study of the accounts of early Spanish and Portuguese missionaries and adventurers in Cambodia was published in French in 1958, and is translated here into English for the first time. The reports of the Europeans record the earliest surviving first-hand accounts of Angkor, following the 'rediscovery'… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2018. Laos, blessed with rich cultural traditions, natural beauty and a warm and hospitable population, is still, remarkably, ‘off the beaten track’ compared with the hordes of tourists one encounters elsewhere in SE Asia. For the new arrival, Lets Speak Lao is the only tool the visitor will need to start to communicate with Lao people. This… Read more about this item