Tom Vater

Tom Vater‘s guide to Cambodia by Moon is out now and available via Amazon.  Copies will reach stores across the US in the coming weeks. Read the publisher’s web page on this brand new title. Or read an introduction here: Author, journalist, screenwriter, and researcher Tom Vater leads you on an adventure through Cambodia, from [...]

January 27th, 2010 | Tags: Angkor, Angkor Wat, Cambodia, guide book, guidebook, Moon Books, Moon Handbook, Phnom Penh, Tom Vater, tourism, tourist information, travel guide | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

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January 18th, 2010 | Tags: Bergvölker Nordthailands, Kulturschock - Thailands Bergvölker und Seenomaden, MERIAN, MERIAN Magazin, Reisejournalismus, reportage, Thailand, Thailands Bergvölker, Thailands Minderheiten, Tom Vater, Tourismus, Tsunami | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

Rainer Krack and Tom Vater‘s Thailand Handbook, published by Reise Know How Verlag in Germany and currently in its 14th edition, has been published by Bezdroza in Poland. Tom Vater polowe swego zycia spedzil w Tajlandii. Pierwsza podróz do Azji odbyl w roku 1993, by jako muzykolog dokumentowac i zapisywac muzyke mniejszosci zamieszkujacych Azje Poludniowa [...]

January 15th, 2010 | Tags: Bezdroza, kulturowym, kultury oraz mniejszości Azji południowej, Na świętych wzgórzach, polityki, Rainer Krack, Reise Know How Verlag, Reise-Know-How, Reiseführer Thailand, środowiska naturalnego, Tajlandia, Tajskie plemiona górskie i morscy koczownicy, Thailand, Thailand Handbuch, Tom Vater, turystyki, Wiesenburg Verlag | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

Until very recently the markets of Muang Singh, Luang Nam Tha, Phonsavan and Vang Viang were teeming with live and dead forest animals. Squirrels, civet cats, forest rats, bats, beavers, porcupine and their close relative the ‘sinhawn’ as well as an enormous variety of birds including owls and pheasants were offered from market stalls all [...]

January 13th, 2010 | Tags: Akha, Bushmeat, endangered species, ethnic minority, Hill Tribe, hunt, hunting, Laos, Luang Nam Tha, minority, Muang Singh, Northern Laos, South East Asia, Tom Vater, Traversing the Orient Magazine, wild animals, Yao Mien | Category: Laos | Leave a comment

Marc Eberle’s The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), co-written by Tom Vater, has been nominated for the prestigious History Makers Awards.  The film has been selected as a nominee in this year’s competition in the Best Use of Archive in a Current Affairs Production category.

January 13th, 2010 | Tags: Air America, Alfred McCoy, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Apocalypse Now, CIA, drugs, Fred Branfman, heroin, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, Laos, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, minorities, opium, Secret War, The Most Secret Place on Earth, Tom Vater, Tony Poe, US mercenaries, US war, USA, Vang Pao, Vietnam, Vietnam War | Category: Laos | Leave a comment

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January 10th, 2010 | Tags: Deutschland, Globalisierung, Indochinakrieg, Kommunismus, Laos, Tom Vater, USA | Category: Laos | Leave a comment

Since independence from France in 1956, Morocco has been a magnet for writers, artists, backpackers and more recently, well-heeled tourists. Yet with street crime at record heights and few opportunities for the vast army of young, illiterate unemployed, and a monarchy that cares for little more than its survival, time may be running out for [...]

January 10th, 2010 | Tags: Alan Ginsberg, Beats, Bert Flint, bohemian, Brian Jones, Dar Tiskiwin, drugs, Essouira, hashish, Jemma El Fna, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, King Mohammed VI, Marrakesh, Marrakesh Express, medina, Morocco, North Africa, Paul Bowles, Riad, sex tourism, Sue Hunt, The Rolling Stones, tourism, unemployment, UNESCO, William Burroughs, youth unemployment | Category: Morrocco | Comments (1)