TY - BOOK AU - Warren,William TI - The truth about Anna, and other stories SN - 9813018372 [paperback] PY - 2000/// CY - Singapore PB - Archipelago Press KW - Asia KW - History KW - Asia KW - Social life and customs KW - Anecdotes KW - Asia, Southeastern N1 - Essays; Contents: Introduction -- 1 The truth about Anna -- 2 The romance of Asian travel -- 3 Writers who created romance -- 4 Murder on the veranda -- 5 Isle of serendipitous splendours -- 6 Ghosts along the Chao Phraya river -- 7 Hobson-Jobson: the perfect bedside book -- 8 The queen who came for dinner -- 9 Charmed lives -- 10 The surprising world of capsicum -- 11 Beloved and reviled: the legendary durian -- 12 The lotus -- 13 The myth of Asian women -- 14 A Laotian interlude -- 15 Oddities of the museum world -- 16 Cobra, anyone ? -- 17 A literary window on ayutthaya -- 18 Maugham ni Siam -- 19 The slightly mad charm of the real Bangkok -- Living in a myth -- 21 Bangkok in the sixties ER -