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Lonely planet - Lao phrasebook
Great to have to with you when talking to the saffron robed
novices. I can say "hello" in Lao as well as count to
ten, and say colours.
A good introduction for tourists. |
Guidebooks
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Insight Guides - Laos & Cambodia
Good maps, excellent photos. This books describes the ethnic mix
of peoples.
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Footprint Laos
This guide book covers Laos by region, with sections on
history and customs. Includes maps locating hotels and
guesthouses.
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Culture Shock! Laos: A Survival Guide to Customs and
Etiquette
The book provides a sympathetic and fun-filled crash course
on the do's and don'ts in Laos.
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Successful Living in Thailand (The Thai & I) by Roger Welty
This guide to the practicalities of living and working in
Thailand will help transform readers from being 'outsiders' to
being 'insiders'.
Amazon UK don't carry the paperback - I picked up a copy at
Bangkok airport.
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The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug
Trade
ISBN 978-1556521256
Laos: The (former) Land of the Poppy. Several chapters focus on
Laos' recent history.
Here's a link to an
old edition |
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A History of Laos
by Martin Stuart-Fox
The book covers ancient, French colonial, independence, the
Secret War, revolution, and the PDR. |
Biographies
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My Thai Girl and I
ISBN 978-974-9898-90-1
How the author met his young wife and set up home in the rice
fields of North Eastern Thailand.
http://www.thaigirl2004.com/ |
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Farang: Thailand Through the Eyes of an Ex-pat
Thailand experiences presented in a very humorous way.
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Golden Bones
An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia
to a New Life in America by Sichan
Siv
"Never give up hope!"
Sichan Siv autobiography.
1970's Cambodia, Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge and the
"killing fields". He escapes to Thailand. In the U.S. a cabbie, eventually rising to become a
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
by John Wood
In 1998 John Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft . Then
a trip to Nepal inspired him to set up schools and libraries in
the developing world. In 1999, he founded Room to
Read, a charity that promotes literacy throughout
the developing world.
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Monks and Motorcycles
From Laos to London by the Seat of My Pants 1956-1958
by Franklin E Huffman
The author shares his experiences and emotions during two years as
a French interpreter for a community development team on the
Plain of Jars in Laos. Leaving Laos, he buys a motorcycle and
sets out for Europe, with only a National Geographic map of Asia
and the optimism of youth as his guide.
Huffman's self-deprecating humour and his mastery of English
language makes this book a good read. |
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Book List
Lao fonts
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