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Bangkok Days
Random House Group Ltd 2009; US$ 12.00Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry, and then stays when he finds he can live off just a few dollars a day. Osborne's Bangkok is a vibrant, instinctual city full of contradictions. He wanders the streets,... more...
The Accidental Connoisseur
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004; US$ 14.99What is taste? Is it individual or imposed on us from the outside? Why are so many of us so intimidated when presented with the wine list at a restaurant? In The Accidental Connoisseur , journalist Lawrence Osborne takes off on a personal voyage through a little-known world in pursuit of some answers. Weaving together a fantastic cast of eccentrics... more...
Bangkok Days
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009; US$ 7.99A PASSIONATE, AFFECTIONATE RECORD OF ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES IN THE WORLD?S HOTTEST METROPOLIS Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons?a sex change operation, a night with two prostitutes dressed as nuns, a stay in a luxury hotel. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry. Broke (but no longer in pain), he finds that he can live... more...
The Naked Tourist
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007; US$ 19.99From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east--and of the tour itself Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself. He took a six-month journey across the so-called... more...
The Forgiven
Crown Publishing Group 2012; US$ 25.00In this stylish, haunting novel, journalist and novelist Lawrence Osborne explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of Moroccan Muslims and Western visitors who converge on a luxurious desert villa for a decadent weekend-long party. David and Jo Henniger, a doctor and children's book author, in search of an escape from their... more...
The Wet And The Dry
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 17.34'I am taking a few months off to travel and wander, drinking my way across the Islamic world to see whether I can dry myself out, cure myself of a bout of alcoholic excess. It is a personal crisis, a private curiosity. I am curious to see how non-drinkers live. Perhaps they have something to teach me.' Booze is mankind's premier drug of... more...
The Wet and the Dry
Crown Publishing Group 2013; US$ 25.00A ?stylish and engaging?fearlessly honest account? ( Financial Times ) of man?s love of drink, and an insightful meditation on the meaning of alcohol consumption across cultures worldwide Drinking alcohol: a beloved tradition, a dangerous addiction, even ?a sickness of the soul? (as once described by a group of young Muslim men in Bali). In his... more...
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