After several years in Bangkok, Ernest Young describes the daily life of the Siamese: street scenes in the Venice of the East, life along the canals, childhood and the ceremony of shaving the top-knot, courtship and marriage, household customs, cremations, royal ceremonies and the monks of the yellow robe at the heart of Siamese Buddhism.
A detailed, sympathetic outsider’s portrait of Siam in the reign of King Chulalongkorn. Download the free EPUB.