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A pictorial collection of the massive 2011 floods in Thailand, documenting the worst crisis in 50 years, has now hit the shelves.
Published by Kom Chad Luek, with photos compiled from various publications under the Nation Multimedia Group, the 84page book is priced at Bt79.
“The Big One”, titled in Thai as “The Grand Flood 2011”, is also intended to archive photographic evidence of the floods similar to the historic photos showing the flooding of Bangkok in a major inundation in 1942.
The photos document flooding in waterways in the North, including the four tributaries of the Chao Phraya River – Ping, Wang, Yom and Nan – that travel through the many provinces from Chiang Mai to Phitsanulok before creeping towards Bangkok, submerging vast areas along the way.
Apart from farmlands and villages in the central plains, five major industrial estates which have never experienced flooding were also submerged under the massive volume of flood water travelling southward, eventually inundating the capital, where rare scenes of people wading and evacuating became familiar.
The Big One
