guide to THAILAND

ABOUT THE BOOK

When EON Productions choose Thailand to be the main setting for their ninth James Bond adventure, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1974), they entered unexplored territory. After filming the dusty streets and dirty khlongs of Bangkok, the production moved southwards to the magical islands of Phang Nga Bay. 

When the movie came out, a worldwide audience saw its first glimpse of the beautiful country and overnight everything changed. “We put Phuket on the map!”, director Guy Hamilton would later claim. And he was right. Clever tour operators rebranded the visually stunning Khao Phing Kan to James Bond Island and made it one of the most visited James Bond filming locations in the world. In 1997, the film makers returned to both Bangkok and Phang Nga Bay, to film exciting parts of TOMORROW NEVER DIES here.

Includes a foreword by Miss Goodnight herself, actress Britt Ekland.

SPECIFICATIONS

ISBN: 9789081329446 (Full colour interior), Binding: Paperback

Size: 21cm x 17cm, Pages: 136, Release date: May 12, 2020

Thomas Gleitsmann in Thailand in 2020

About the authors

Having developed a deep love for Thailand after numerous visits, Thomas Gleitsmann approached Martijn Mulder with the idea to turn his research into the next book in the travel guide series. Mulder started writing the text based on Gleitsmann's direction and together with the many location photos taken by the latter on his journey's the book started to grow into the ultimate guide to James Bond's Thailand.

The rediscovery of the until then unknown spiral jump location at Klong Rangsit became the focus of the advertisement campaign, which made this book a firm favorite among the James Bond community's Asia travelers