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Joe Cummings

Bangkok: City of Angels

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This Thailand travel pictorial presents Bangkok’s ancient traditions, breathtaking architecture and vibrant city culture.Situated on the banks of the Chao Phraya, Thailand’s capital has spectacular Buddhist statues, unique cultural experiences and a variety of natural color that Bill Wassman’s camera captures to an extraordinary degree.In over 140 stunning color photographs, backed by the lucid and insightful writing of authors Joe Cummings and Bill Wassman brings us exquisite portraits and views of Bangkok's people, places, and a host of other delights. Wassman's work is an absolute joy to experience as it celebrates the beauty of this remarkable city. In allowing readers to enter the world of Bangkok, they show clearly why Thailand's heartbeat continues to enchant and beguile all who visit her.
ToursPictorialsTravelPhotographyRegional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
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181 printed pages
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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    Thai men are expected to shave their heads and don monastic robes temporarily at least once in their lives. Some enter the monkhood twice, first as 10-vow novices in their preteen years and again as fully ordained, 227-vow monks sometime after the age of 20
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      Portuguese priest Fernao Mendez Pinto was the first to use the epithet “Venice of the East,” referring not to Bangkok but to Ayuthaya, in a letter to the Society of Jesus in Lisbon in 1554, but two hundred years later the term came to be used to describe the new Bangkok capital as well. I
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      • Oxana Yatsenkohas quoted4 years ago
        mementoes of national pride to the city and helped found the country's first fine arts university. Americans established Siam's first printing press along with the kingdom's first newspaper.
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