Banned in Bangkok
I've just learned that my cousin's excellent book, Bangkok Inside Out, has been banned in Thailand. This is a real shame, as the book is essentially a love-letter to the city.
This is Daniel's second book in what I hope is a series. The first, Jakarta Inside Out covers the culture of that city in much the same way, and is (still) available in Indonesia and worldwide.
Both books feature awesome pictures and great prose -- typically one-topic per page -- on day-to-day real life cultural aspects of these cities. Most of the material taps into the true goings on of the people of Jakarta and Bangkok -- the kind of stuff you only learn from living there for years (as Daniel and his co-author have).
