James O'Reilly and Larry Habegger

About James O'Reilly and Larry Habegger

James O'Reilly, president and publisher of Travelers' Tales, wrote mystery serials before becoming a travel writer in the early 1980s. He's visited more than forty countries, along the way meditating with monks in Tibet, participating in West African voodoo rituals, and hanging out the laundry with nuns in Florence. He lives with his wife Wenda in Leavenworth, Washington. Larry Habegger, executive editor of Travelers’ Tales, has been writing about travel since 1980. He has visited almost sixty countries and six of the seven continents, traveling from the frozen Arctic to equatorial rain forest, the high Himalayas to the Dead Sea. In the early 1980s he coauthored mystery serials for the San Francisco Examiner with James O’Reilly, and from 1985 to 2016 their syndicated column, "World Travel Watch," appeared in newspapers in five countries. They have worked on all of TT's 160 books, winning many awards for excellence.

Introduction to Thailand

travelerstales Thailand should satisfy just about any traveler’s hunger for the exotic, the beautiful, the thrillingly different. But it is a country whose very lure for the foreigner threatens to make it a parody of itself. It is a country with a deep respect for family and monarchy, and a country with a huge prostitution industry and a corrupt military. It is a thriving place for business, but has serious problems with international copyright and trademark piracy. It is a physically lovely country that is, like many others, being degraded by logging, wildlife exploitation, and overdevelopment. Added on January 10, 2002

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Merle Haggard and the Ambassador

India Colonel Wakefield wore a faint smile. "Anyone want to see a leopard?" We nodded, cold but still eager after hours of bouncing around the forest in a jeep. The Colonel shone his flashlight on a sign at the entrance to Nagarhole National Park. Indeed there was a leopard on it, a very nice leopard, a painted wood leopard. Not exactly what we had in mind, but it gave us a good laugh as we headed back to the lodge. Nagarhole is a little-visited game preserve in the south of India in Karnataka state, two hours southwest of the fabled city of Mysore. Added on November 22, 2001

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Introduction to India

We confess a deep bias towards India, an attraction which goes back, for one of us, to teenage years spent reading Aurobindo and Tagore, meditating and doing hatha yoga, to the other roaming India as a young man, a temporary sadhu from Minnesota.

India is everything human. It is all of our history, it is the

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