Product Description: Footprint's new edition of the snappily titled Bangkok and the Beaches Handbook offers Thailand's continuous flow of Western visitors a dazzling array of experiences, from the high-octane bustle of Bangkok nightlife to the horizontal latitudes of its island retreats...read more

Product Description: These brand-new or newly updated guides feature the same authoritative and derailed coverage characteristic of all Footprint Handbooks. They provide travelers with the most in-depth information available about a specific country or region.

Product Description: Laos, with its Theravada Buddhist culture, pristine countryside and French influences is one of the great treasures of Southeast Asia. It is a truly unique and delightful country to visit. This guide includes highlights of Laos illustrated with colour photography, coverage of al the entry points from Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma) and China, comprehensive information on all the sights, from Luang Prabang’s exceptional religious sites to Vientiane’s French colonial heritage, extensive listings on all practical aspects of travel plus unique colour maps to help plan the trip...read more

Written by a specialist on South East Asia who has lived, worked and travelled extensively in the region for over 15 years, this updated handbook on Thailand provides both background and detailed travel information. It explains how to get off the well-mapped-out "routes" to other areas such as Northeast Thailand, a highly distinctive part with a Laothian culture and a Cambodian heritage. Lightweight and portable, the handbook also includes: information about where to stay - from luxury hotels to good-value guest houses; useful words and phrases; information on bars, nightlife and where and what to eat; detailed coverage of the expanding number of parks - such as Khoa Sam Roi Yod National Park in the southern peninsula which was opened in 1996 and is Thailand's first marine park; and background on history, culture, the archaeological heritage and modern Thailand.

Product Description: Singapore is an unlikely place. It has been engineered to unexpected economic success and 'imagineered' into an entertainment playground for the historically and ecologically impaired citizens of Singapore, whose government once implored them to 'have spontaneous fun'...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sumatra is a natural wonderland of luxuriant forests, fast-flowing rivers, vast swamps, cool highland lakes and imposing volcanoes. It encompasses a panoply of trees, flowers, mammals, birds, reptiles and insects to satisfy the most demanding naturalist - among them the world's largest flower, the 'Rafflesia', the orang-utan, Asian elephant, Sumatran rhinoceros and tiger, the sunbear, three species of gibbon, ten species of hornbill and the (occasionally) man-eating estuarine crocodile...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Indonesia Handbook explores all that this diverse country has to offer island by island. From Sumatra in the west through Java and Bali, Sulawesi and Nusa Tenggara to Maluku, the group of "Spice Islands" in the east. It has been written by people whose knowledge of the vast region is unsurpassable and features the most comprehensive background information available covering every aspect of Indonesia's heritage...read more

Describes the area, discusses its history, and provides information on accommodations, dining, attractions, and activities

Describes the area, discusses its history, and provides information on accommodations, dining, attractions, and activities

Describes the area, discusses its history, and provides information on accommodations, dining, attractions, and activities

Product Description: Hardcover, pocket-sized guide book to Thailand and Burma.

Product Description: Book by Books, Passport

Product Description: Book by Eliot, Joshua, Bickersteth, Jane, Colet, John