Thanks for the share Peter. All of us at Bicycle Thailand are now interested to read Robert's story.
Here is an email we recently received from one of our readers who is looking to get his cycling-related book published. Perhaps its related question may be better answered by viewers of this topic.
"Dear Bicycle Thailand Forum:
Can anyone on the forum connect me with a publisher (or entrepreneur) in Thailand who would like to publish some funny bicycling heritage trail tourist books?
Last year, my Southeast Asia Cultural and Environmental Heritage Protection Project won a grant from the Pacific Asia Travel Association Foundation (PATA) to produce funny children's tour books of bicycle heritage trails for children and tourists.
I have completed the texts and have indicative maps for 8 different tours that are on the Thai-Lao border around Vientiane. Each book uses the bicycle as a "time machine" to travel to a different historical period and to see what is still visible on a bicycle tour to imagine the history (Khmer era, Mon period, Lan Xang, American era, etc.)
The text for this initial series is completed. What is needed now is a commercial publisher to translate the English for an English-Thai edition and to draw the illustrations (following the suggestions), then to offer the book at a competitive low price and distribute it, keeping it in print.
If this works, I have done the research for several dozen more tours in Thailand and Laos.
Please contact me.
D L, Project Director"
Anyone can point DL in the right direction with his project?
