This is a book about the experience of a Lanna whose identity is a Siamese. He has lived in Thailand, New Zealand, England, Japan and Hungary.

For centuries, wherever Thai Buddhists have made their homes, statues of the Buddha have provided striking testament to the role of Buddhism in the lives of the

Lan Na is the name of a conglomerate of Thai city-states that covered roughly the area of modern north Thailand between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries.

The Khmer civilisation centred on Angkor was one of the most remarkable to flourish in Southeast Asia.

The country now known as Thailand achieved its present form in the nineteenth century. Before then for over five hundred years there flourished the independent