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Check out the top travel photographers working in Asia today with a new series of books called Asia Unique. Published under the Red Banana Books imprint, the books highlight the diversity of Asia by focusing on one specific topic – the first three titles are called Doors, Hands and Catch, the last title referring to [...]
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The 14th edition of Rainer Krack and Tom Vater’s Thailand Handbook with German travel publisher Reise Know How has just been published at the beginning of 2009. This bumper issue is packed with 900 pages of up to date travel information on Thailand. And for the first time, all the pictures are in color, shot by [...]
I am currently occupied with writing the Moon Cambodia Guide, a concise new travel guide to Cambodia, and I am enjoying the project very much. After four weeks of research and muddy roads, I have just traveled from Cambodia to Thailand, overland, as the Thai airports were closed. The Moon Cambodia Guide is due to [...]
Marc Eberle’s The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), co-written by Tom Vater, has been has been reviewed by Andrew Nette at Asia Times Online.
The Kasliwal family has for decades crafted jewellery for royalty, presidents and film stars from its Gem Palace in one of India’s most beautiful cities. Tom Vater reports from Jaipur, Rajsthan. Almost 300 years ago, Sawai Jai Singh II, a powerful Kachwaha Rajput ruler, scholar and patron of the arts, decided to build a magnificent [...]
While in Cambodia, I noticed that my non-fiction title Beyond the Pancake Trench, published by Orchid Books, is being sold in bookshops around the country, along with scores of other titles, as a photocopied bootleg. Damn. The majority of books currently sold in Cambodia are probably pirated products, as is the vast majority of DVDs, [...]
In July 2008, Aroon Thaewchatturat‘s new photo book, Zur Quelle des Ganges (A Journey to the Source of the Ganges), was published by Reise Know How Verlag in Germany. It looks great. I wrote the text. The book is the result of three months travel through the central Indian Himalaya in 2007, on foot, by [...]
I traveled to the source of the Ganges, India’s holiest river, accompanying my wife Aroon Thaewchatturat on a photography assignment, and wrote a book on the characters we met along the way, including Indian writers Ruskin Bond, Bill Aitken and Ganesh Saili. I wrote most of the book in a cottage in Landour, a village [...]