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: Angkor, the ancient capital of the powerful Khmer Empire, is one of the archaeological gems of Asia and the spiritual and cultural heart of Cambodia. All aspects of visiting this ‘wonder of the world’ are covered in this guide written by a leading Southeast Asia expert...read more

Product Description: These brand-new or newly updated guides feature the authoritative and detailed coverage characteristic of all Footprint Handbooks. The authors are experts who have lived or worked in the countries they write about and will inspire readers to enjoy traveling as much as they do...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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: The highly acclaimed Footprint Indonesia Handbook explores all that this diverse country has to offer island by island. From Sumatra through Java, Bali and Lombok to Sulawesi this guide provides the most up-to-date practical advice available...read more

Product Description: This award-winning series is jam packed with up-to-date, in depth travel information and fascinating background details, including highlights of every town and site, money-saving tips, health precautions, and anecdotes on local history, culture, and customs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Thailand is an Asian cliché. Exotic, inscrutable, hot, Oriental, delicate, sumptuous... Take the first few hours of an average visitor's arrival in Bangkok. Off the plane and into a gleaming new airport terminal. Lilting Thai voices, and a strange alphabet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This guide to Malaysia and Singapore covers all areas of this diverse country from Melaka, Penang and the hill stations of peninsular Malaysia to Sabah and Sarawak. Containing detailed practical information, it is fully revised and updated and is published in a travel-proof paperback format that is portable and lightweight. The handbook includes: highlights of Malaysia with colour photography; background information on every aspect of the country's heritage and history; facts on where to stay from luxury hotels on idyllic island retreats to youth hostel and government lodges; and colour maps to help plan a visit. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Footprint’s Sumatra Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of this Indonesian island, including popular destinations like Lake Toba, Bukittinggi and the Riau archipelago, as well as lesser visited places off the beaten track...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: Ankor, the ancient capital of the powerful Khmer Empire, is an important archaeological site in Asia and the spiritual and cultural heart of Cambodia. This handbook contains information on how to get there and where to stay, plus background information enabling the visitor to understand the full significance of this great historical monument...read more

Product Description: The award-winning Footprint Handbooks series has been capturing worldwide attention and admiration for 75 years! Now this excellent series has been revamped to better serve world travelers. With its larger typeface, color sections and maps, bigger trim size, and travel-tough covers, Footprint Handbooks are more durable and easier to use...read more

Product Description: Book by Eliot, Joshua, Bickersteth, Jane, Morrison, Tamsin

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

Product Description: Written by a Southeast Asia specialist who has lived, worked and travelled extensively in the region for 15 years, this handbook on Myanmar provides both background and detailed travel information. It explains how to plan an independent trip, and where to go and where not to go...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the area, discusses its history, and provides information on accommodations, dining, attractions, and activities (view table of contents)

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