These brand-new or newly updated guides feature the same authoritative and derailed coverage characteristic of all Footprint Handbooks. They provide travelers with the most in-depth information available about a specific country or region.
Laos
Written in journal form, Crescent Moon Over Laos is a voyage of discovery that unfolds in the parallel stories of an emerging soul and a re-emerging country. It is about Laos and it is about a traveler: a novella in non-fiction.
Government, Politics, and Social Structure of Laos: A Study in Tradition and Innovation
A Preliminary and Partial Bibliography of Miscellaneous Research Materials on Laos: With Special Reference to the Mekong Development Scheme, Plus...
Discusses current, detailed information on virtually everything that defines life in Laos, from its economy and environment to its geography and social trends.
Laos
This book challenges conventional Thai interpretations of that event and of the political conflicts leading up to it.
The contributors to this volume identify the major economic issues of the New Economic Mechanism concerning the restructuring of the economy, the role of the state and economic management, financial restructuring, the new directions in ...
HISTORICAL DICTIONARIES OF ASIA, OCEANIA, AND THE MIDDLE EAST Jon Woronoff, Series Editor Guam and Micronesia, by William Wuerch and Dirk Ballendorf. 1994. Azerbaijan, by Tadeusz Swietochowski and Brian C. Collins. 1999.
When renowned travel writer Dervla Murphy went to Laos in 1997, she discovered a country that had only just opened its borders to the West.