Comments on: The Hawngs of Phang Nga Bay http://kosmos.liveflux.net/blog/2008/04/14/the-hawngs-of-phang-nga-bay/ Kosmos is Greek for world. It is the name of our boat, and the scope of our travel ambitions. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:54:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Dawn http://kosmos.liveflux.net/blog/2008/04/14/the-hawngs-of-phang-nga-bay/#comment-14282 Dawn Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:34:00 +0000 http://kosmos.liveflux.net/blog/2008/04/14/the-hawngs-of-phang-nga-bay/#comment-14282 This might be the coolest post yet. Also wanted to let you know that a writer from Lonely Planet made up some of the books he wrote. Since you read them I thought you might get a kick out of it. But, from the articles I read the things he said weren't inaccurate he just didn't actually do any of it and used 3rd party accounts to write. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=559493&in_page_id=1811 This might be the coolest post yet.

Also wanted to let you know that a writer from Lonely Planet made up some of the books he wrote. Since you read them I thought you might get a kick out of it. But, from the articles I read the things he said weren’t inaccurate he just didn’t actually do any of it and used 3rd party accounts to write.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=559493&in_page_id=1811

]]> By: Al http://kosmos.liveflux.net/blog/2008/04/14/the-hawngs-of-phang-nga-bay/#comment-14301 Al Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:35:18 +0000 http://kosmos.liveflux.net/blog/2008/04/14/the-hawngs-of-phang-nga-bay/#comment-14301 Dawn is "right on" in her comments about guide books such as Lonely Planet ---- in that once bought out by a large firm, the "personalized local hands on quality" seems to soon disappear. Also the depth seems to disappear and the writings seem to be written by a tourist who themselves never got to know anything about the local people or culture. Compare recent guide books of Indonesia to Bill Dalton's "Indonesia Handbook" from past years. I think that this is one that was purchased by Lonely Planet from Moon Publications in the past. It had 1,350 pages written by people who had bothered to live with the peoples and experience depths that the white washed writers now cannot duplicate in their pub mills. When you two publish your book after the trip, please remember this. We like to feel that you have lived the experiences that you are telling us about. We like to hear about beauty also but one needs to add enough realism in to make one feel that our experiences will not be just plain old cookbook --- without spice. Keep up the great writing and we all appreciate that many times it is being done when feeling low or extremely tired. Al Dawn is “right on” in her comments about guide books such as Lonely Planet —- in that once bought out by a large firm, the “personalized local hands on quality” seems to soon disappear. Also the depth seems to disappear and the writings seem to be written by a tourist who themselves never got to know anything about the local people or culture. Compare recent guide books of Indonesia to Bill Dalton’s “Indonesia Handbook” from past years. I think that this is one that was purchased by Lonely Planet from Moon Publications in the past. It had 1,350 pages written by people who had bothered to live with the peoples and experience depths that the white washed writers now cannot duplicate in their pub mills.

When you two publish your book after the trip, please remember this. We like to feel that you have lived the experiences that you are telling us about. We like to hear about beauty also but one needs to add enough realism in to make one feel that our experiences will not be just plain old cookbook — without spice.

Keep up the great writing and we all appreciate that many times it is being done when feeling low or extremely tired.

Al

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