An American in Thailand paints a vivid picture of a fascinating society in this account of his year as a Fulbright professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.Garrett shows what the Fulbright program is really like, including such details as dealing with the web of bureaucratic eccentrics, finding housing, and coping with live-in snakes. M. Carlota Baca, Director of Academic Liaison at the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, describes these diary entries as a graceful blend of personal reminiscence, travel literature, rumination on past U.S. foreign policy in Southeast Asia, and rather deft portraiture of human types. "