Bangkok
Subtitle: Place, Practice and Representation (Asia's Global Cities, 1)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 2, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780415188531
First sentence: On visiting Bangkok in 1923, the English author Somerset Maugham was stimulated to reflect on a perennial question: 'And who can so describe a city as to give a significant picture of it?