Search Results: Southeast Asia from Glynn's Books

London: Profile Books, 2007. Pb, xxx + 329pp. Good, light page tanning, clean contents. Explores the lives of Asia's richest families set against the political and economic issues within Southeast Asia. Includes Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing, Malaysia's casino king Lim Goh Tong, the Philippine's tobacco billionaire Lucio Tan and Indonesian born-again Christian bankers amongst others.. Soft Cover.

London: Prion, 1997. Hb, 128pp, colour photos. VG with clean contents in Good dj which has a closed/cellotaped tear. Asian favourites such as Malaysian Otak-Otak (grilled spicy fish in banana leaf), Wonton Noodle soup, Indonesian Gado Gado (vegetable salad with peanut dressing), Pho (Vietnamese noodle soup), Rendang Daging (Indonesian dry beef curry), Singapore chilli crab.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Singapore: Times Editions, 1987. Hb, 168pp, colour illustrations. Good+ with clean contents in Good+ dj which has only marginal wear. Includes background on habitats, seasonal/migratory patterns and 121 common birds of Singapore illustrated, with a description of their habits, status and deistribution. In addition, there is a checklist of the 295 recurring bird species on the island.. Hard Cover.

Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1993. Pb, xiv + 254pp, b/w photos. Good, marks on back cover/inside back cover, contents clean. Biography of the Cambodian communist leader and revolutionary who led Democratic Kampuchea in the mid-1970s and whose regime was responsible for the deaths of a quarter of Cambodia's population, through genocide and the failure of collectivisim. . Soft Cover.

Gartmore: Kiscadale, 1994. Hb, horizontal format, 114pp, numerpus colour photos. Good+ in a Good+ dj which has sunned spine. Previous owner's inscription on fep. Photographic portrait of Burma, organized into : Rangoon, Mandalay, Land and water, Pagan.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

Chiang Mai, 1998. In English and Thai. Pb, x + 172pp, colour and b/w photos. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. Published to celebrate the centenary of the club which is the oldest sports club in Thailand. Bilingual throughout, it contains extracts from minutes/club reports over the years, history of the club, sports trophies, members list.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2001. Pb, xii + 198pp. Reprint of the 1996 2nd edition. Good+, clean contents, marginal wear. Research study on corruption in Thailand, set within a political context. It examines the roles of politicians, business people, bureaucrats and the police; estimates amounts involved; provides political background; looks at popular attitudes to corruption; and counter-measures.. Soft Cover.

London: Harvill, 2003. Hb, 286pp. Good in a Good dj. Pages tanned but clean. Memoir of French enthnologist Francois Bizot, who was kept prisoner for three months by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Having survived this, he was later present when the Khmer Rouge victoriously entered Phnom Penh and became an intermediary between them and the terrified refugees in the compound of the French embassy. . Hard Cover.

Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pb, xviii + 301pp, b/w illustrations/maps. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. Compact and accessible history of Thailand which ranges over political, economic, social and cultural themes.. Soft Cover.

London: Hutchinson, 1991. Hb, 304pp, b/w illustrations. Good in a Good dj which has light crease. Endpapers have a few speckles, contents clean. Retraces the steps of the novelist Joseph Conrad, travelling through Southeast Asia by sea, land and river, while switching impressions between the 19th century and modern day.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Salim.

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2006. Hb, xi + 499pp. VG with clean contents in a VG dj. The first independent biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who came to the throne in 1946 at a time when the Thai monarchy had lost its power and prestige, and became " the paramount political actor in the kingdom, silencing critics while winning the hearts and minds of his people".. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Bangkok: Post Publishing Co.Ltd, 1991. Hb, 232pp, colour photos. VG with clean contents in a Good+ dj which has marginal wear. Photographic travelogue of the landscapes and people along the Mekong river. Flowing 4,200 kilometres from the Tibetan plateau, through China's Yunnan province and Laos, along the borders of Burma and Thailand, and through Cambodia before arriving at the Nine Dragons of the delta in south Vietnam and the south China sea.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Manager Smolan Millet/Against All Odds Productions, 1994. Hb, 224pp, colour photos. VG with clean contents in VG dj. In Spring 1994 the Vietnamese government granted access to a team of 70 world-class photojournalists who travelled throughout the country. Their photographs are accompanied by text by various writers.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1984. Horizontal format, Hb, 300pp, 754 illustrations including 712 in colour. Good in a Fair dj which has chips and edgewear. Previous owner's inscription on fep, text clean. Describes the main hill tribes of Thailand in terms of their customs, beliefs and ways of life, accompanied by numerous colour photos. Contents : Peoples of the Golden Triangle; Jewellery and ornaments; Karen; Hmong; Mien; Lahu; Akha; Lisu; Musical instruments, baskets and utensils; Signs of change. The authors lived and worked amongst the northern hill tribes for many years.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1944. Hb, green cloth, no dj, 183pp, b/w plates. Good(-). Light wear, tanning to page edges, a number written on fep, contents otherwise clean. Written during the Second World War when much of Southeast Asia was under Japanese occupation, the first paragraph of the Introduction sets the tone : " This book is about the peoples of South-east Asia, a hundred and fifty million of them. Today they are hostages in the hands of the enemy; tomorrow they must be our fellow workers in the building of a free world". The book then provides a potted social history of the region and how it has developed. Contents: Part 1 In Forests and Fields; Part II The New Era; Part III Freedom and Welfare.. Hard Cover. Good.

N.Y./Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Hb, xvi + 506pp, maps, b/w photos. VG with clean contents in VG dj. A family history beginning with the author's great grandfather Duong Lam, who rose from poverty to become a mandarin at the imperial court. Like other Vietnamese families, hers later became split between support for the French colonial regime and for the Communists, and experienced the tragedy of the Vietnam war with some evacuated whilst others remained behind.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Singapore: Ministry of Culture Information Division, 1984. Pb, 397pp, numerous colour and b/w photos. Good, clean contents, light wear. Presents the history of Singapore from 1941 to 1984 in pictures with a short accompanying narrative.. Soft Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1997. Pb, xi + 215pp, colour photos. Good, slight corner wear, clean contents. Combines travelogue and history. The author, a journalist who worked in Indochina, examines the fate of one of Asia's oldest monarchies and the upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s in Laos.. Soft Cover. Good.

N.Y.: Picador, 2014. Hb, xxii + 363pp, b/w photos. VG with clean contents in VG dj. Entertaining biography of Sylivia Brooke, wife of Sir Vyner Brooke, the last White Rajah of Sarawak. " The kind of gift subject that a biographer must dream of . . .colourful anecdotes of eccentricty, lunacy and infidelity crowd every page " ( Sunday Times, Books of the Year).. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Chiang Mai: Self Published, 2006. Hb, 159pp, colour photos. VG with clean contents in VG dj. Over 250 "photo-stories" about Thai elephants. The first part illustrates their role in tourism - in shows, rides, annual events. The second part provides insights on elephant characteristics, mating, role in forest ecology, elephant hunters, and the royal elephant reintroduction project.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.