"I loved Travelers' Tales. It parts the curtain on a country that has long fascinated and mystified me." --David Lamb, A Sense of Place

"This is the best background reading I've ever seen on Thailand!" --Carl Parkes, Thailand Handbook, Moon Publications

"Travelers' Tales Thailand delivers something most guidebooks only promise: a real sense of what a country is all about...the first of what promises to be a long-lived and popular series." --Steve Silk, Hartford Courant

"Thailand is the first country featured in what looks to be a promising series of background reading for both active and armchair travelers.... The tales highlight the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of Thailand." --Asiaweek

"I've been to Thailand seven times, and I sure wish I'd had this book before going. It brings backs memories and whets my appetite for the next trip." --Marybeth Bond, Overseas Adventure Travel

"The Travelers' Tales series aims to convey the excitement of voyaging through exotic territory with a vivacity that guidebooks can only hint at." --Millennium Whole Earth Catalog

"I'm thrilled to see a publication such as Travelers' Tales finally available to those of us who, when we're deciding how to approach our journeys, want something other than the encyclopedic formulae of even the best travel guides." --Scott Doggett, editor, Los Angeles Times

"If there's one thing traditional guidebooks lack, it's the really juicy travel information, the personal stories about back alleys and brief encounters. The Travelers' Tales series fills this gap with an approach that's all anecdotes, no directions. Travelers' Tales Thailand, for example, features stories from 46 authors. It grabs you with Robert Sam Anson's description of the inherent sensualities of Siam, and it piques your interest with, among other things, descriptions of the voluntary monastic rituals that Thai men observe. It made me want to taste the food that Anson and others describe, and to see the colors of the bazaars and experience the mayhem in downtown Bangkok. In short, I want to go there." --Diversion

"The selections (in Travelers' Tales Thailand) give the reader an intimate and personal look at a country and culture dissimilar to our own. The Travelers' Tales series should be required reading for anyone visiting a foreign country who wants to step off the tourist track and experience another culture, another place, first-hand." --Nancy Pardis, St. Petersburg Times