Penguin Bloom

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Cameron Bloom. Penguin Bloom

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From the first images and scribbled text to the polished prose, finished layout, environmentally friendly paper and the exquisitely neat binding, a great many talented people have poured their heart and soul into the beautiful book you now hold in your hands.

Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive would especially like to thank Brigitta Doyle of ABC Books, whose genuine and enduring passion for this story has truly made all the difference.

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We made our way to Phuket, which, to our surprise, is now the most popular beach destination in Southeast Asia. The locals were lovely and the beaches were beautiful, but the Thai culture we wanted our children to experience was all but invisible within what was effectively an international party town for teenage backpackers. Having had such high expectations Sam and I were dispirited but by no means defeated. We were very happy for other tourists to have their fun, but we hadn’t spent ten hours on a plane so that our impressionable boys could eat cheeseburgers and snicker at offensive novelty t-shirts.

After a refreshing dip in the Andaman Sea to compose ourselves, we considered our options over a meal of chicken satay and rice. Before the sun had set we’d planned our escape. We would head to Chiang Mai and beyond, some fifteen hundred kilometres to the north. There we would seek out Thailand’s indigenous hill tribes in the mountainous borderlands of Myanmar and Laos. On the way we planned to make stops along the coast, both to relax and to experience authentic rural Thai life.

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