The Chiang Mai Chronicle by David K. Wyatt

The fact that she’d been in love with the guy since she was a kid didn’t help. True, Carver paled in comparison to Levi, but so did every other man Sun had ever met. “And thirty-five thousand species of spiders.” “Did you know there are over five million species of insects in the world?” He was handsome but not in a charming way. Something Sun couldn’t quite put her finger on. Still, there was something off about him.

He’d make some lucky girl a fine ex-husband one day. On a scale of one to Ferrari, Carver was a solid Ford Explorer. “It’s just, in case you’ve ever wondered-” “Not that Loki had anything to do with my job.” His height alone was enough to turn heads.Īnd he’d been graced with thick muddy curls. “Then there was the time I tried to tame a jellyfish.” Carver wasn’t the worst date she’d ever had.

“I will never stick my hand inside an RV’s plumbing system again.” “Another time, I thought I’d been bitten by a copperhead and fell down three flights of stairs.” “Last year I was attacked by a swarm of carnivorous beetles.” Ripping out one’s facial hair took nerve. “There’s a lot more to pest control than people realize.” She looked across the table at said date-the third one her parents had set her up with in as many weeks-and feigned interest by lifting a brow in dire need of professional attention. Their deaths would be slow and methodical and painful. It includes both people whom we might think of as conservative and royalist and those who usually are thought of as non-conforming.Sunshine stared into her cup of coffee as though it were a witch’s cauldron, a window revealing all the ways she could kill her parents. The author touches upon political and religious thought, but also upon such “artistic” thought as that demonstrated in novels, paintings, and historical writing. Collected here is a valuable historical sampling of these new ideas from the many different regions of what we think of today as Thailand. Wyatt muses about these pieces of history, revealing some of the creative thinking that has been going on in the minds of ordinary and nameless people as well as great and well-known thinkers in Siam for the past thirteen hundred years.Ī variety of new thought - political, religious, and artistic - has arisen in all sorts of contexts: warfare, trade, administration, and farming, to name a few. It is a series of informal sketches, gleaned over years of historical research and stored away for rumination and reflection by one of the foremost historians of Thailand. This slim volume takes the reader on a fascinating stroll through Thailand’s intellectual history - the thoughts of the people of Siam, and the products of their thought, through history.

The Chiang Mai Chronicle by David K. Wyatt