Bizarre Thailand : tales of crime, sex and black magic / by Jim Algie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Algie, Jim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thailand--Description and travel.

Thailand.

Thailand--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions ; Tarrytown, N.Y. : Marshall Cavendish Corp., c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bizarre Thailand takes readers off the well-rutted road of tourist hotspots into the darkest and sexiest hinterlands. Welcome to a twilight zone where travellers become soldiers and cowboys, a black magician courts politicians and film stars, sacred tortoises mate on the streets of a small town, and Fertility Goddesses are wooed with massive phalluses.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION: INTO THE THAI TWILIGHT ZONE; CRIME SCENES; Behind the Bars of the Bangkok Hiltons; Pattaya: The Vegas of Vice?; Museum of the Macabre: See Uey the Chinese Cannibal; A Night in the Lives of Corpse Collectors; MISADVENTURE TRAVELS; From Ayuthaya to Bangkok: A Bizarre Expat Odyssey; Weekend Warriors: Military Tourism in Thailand; Double Lives: Searching for the Siamese Twins; Country 'n' Eastern: Home on the Dude Ranch; THE SEX FILES; The Black Sex Magician of the Body Politic; Empowering Sex Workers; A Cross-Section of the Third Gender; Erecting a Tribute to a Fertility Goddess

STRANGE CELEBRITIESThe Artist Of Bizarre Architecture; The Angel And She-Devil of Bang Kwang Central Prison; The Scorpion Queen and Centipede King; Thailand's First Lady Of Forensics; CREATURE FEATURES; Going Ape in Simian City; In the Glass Ring with Siamese Fighting Fish; The Water Buffalo's Tombstone; Reptilian Ménage à Trois:; THE SUPERNATURAL; Modern Primitives and Ancient Shamans; Oral Hexes and Shock Airwaves; Nang Nak: The Ghost of Thailand's Past; Funeral Rites: The Thai Way of Death; Directory of the Bizarre; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

981-4351-86-5

OCLC:

778447745