Thailex Travel Encyclopedia
Thailex is a celebration
of the richness of the Orient. With in excess of 18,000 inputs,
over 30,000 pictures and more than 1,100 videos, it goes beyond
where any dictionary or guidebook will take you. Although it
initially focused on Thailand, over time it has broadened its
scope far beyond those political borders to encompass the wider
Far East, including much of Southeast Asia and parts of South
and East Asia, particularly in relation to wildlife. At
times—especially for photography and video in
‘Thailex
Overseas’—its
reach extends even beyond this geographical perimeter.
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The Author
Thailex
is entirely and single-handedly written, translated and
composed by
Yves Masure, who
studied
Thai at the Institute of Languages
of the
Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok,
in addition to
several modern and classical languages,
including English, French, German and
Norwegian (Bokmål). He also
mastered to read and write the
Devanagari
script used for Sanskrit and Hindi, as well as
the Lao and Khmer (Cambodian) scripts and
some
Chinese (Mandarin).
He is
an independent researcher and
a
former student of
theology with an interest in exegesis and history, and
also
gained an in-depth
knowledge of classical and oriental literature as an autodidact, studied
Greek (Koine)
at the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Leuven and
Hebrew (Aramaic)
at the
Theologicum
of the
Diocesan Seminar
in Antwerp, both in
Flanders,
Belgium.
Yves
has travelled and lived in
Southeast Asia since 1993 and Thailex
is the culmination of over three decades of travel, research, translation,
and archival work.
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Copyright
All lay-out, text and
illustrations* in this work are the property of Thailex and
Yves Masure,
and protected by copyright. No part of this work may
be copied, reproduced or electronically saved without prior and explicit
permission of the owner. By starting the Thailex DVD or opening the
supporting website,
the user accepts and is bound by these conditions. *For
illustrations scanned
from
Thai postage stamps, of which the ultimate and exclusive rights belong to
Thailand Post, Co. Ltd.,
permission
has been granted.
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