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Bangkok grew on the Chao Phraya floodplain, where royal ceremony, migrant trade, temple life and waterborne neighbourhoods formed a capital that has never stood still. Its identity survives in ferry crossings, canal houses, market lanes, ritual gestures and transport systems layered above and below the street.

A Little Book of Bangkok enters Thailand's capital through forty concise, researched reflections. Cross from Thonburi to Rattanakosin; read the stone library of Wat Pho; look closely at Wat Arun, the Golden Mount and the Giant Swing. Follow Sampeng into Yaowarat, repair engines in Talat Noi, share the lanes of Kudi Chin and watch flowers move through Pak Khlong Talat before dawn. Spirit houses, Songkran, Khon, Muay Thai, motorcycle taxis, flood walls and the Skytrain reveal a city shaped by ritual and practical invention.

Written for travellers, readers and lovers of layered cities, this is an intimate literary portrait rather than a conventional guidebook: a book about water, movement, shared space and the restless work of adaptation.

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