Thailand

My old company took me back, a rung lower. Eighteen easy-going months in Pattaya and Bangkok put me back together

There it was, spread largely on both banks, the Oriental capital which had as yet suffered no white conqueror … towered great piles of masonry, King’s Palace, temples, gorgeous and dilapidated, crumbling under the vertical sunlight.

Joseph Conrad — The Shadow-Line (1917)

For your coffee table

Bangkok Spirit

Assouline

Bangkok’s temples, street food and nights, by Simon Liberati.

Linen hardcover · Over 200 illustrations