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No, not all of Bangkok is flooded. The downtown area around Siam Square and Sukhumvit Road remains dry. But large areas are now submerged. The west side of the Chao Praya River, Thonburi, is under a meter of water. The tourist area of Banglamphu and Khao San Road floods periodically, depending on the tide and [...]
Just passed through Siem Reap International Airport in Cambodia today and spotted my new book Sacred Skin in the airport bookshop, displayed prominently next to Birds of South East Asia and Ferns of the Tropics…hm, topical. Spent a week on assignment in Siem Reap before returning to a flooded Bangkok. Sacred Skin is the first [...]
Sacred Skin, top attractions at the booths of Hong Kong publisher Visionary World and UK Distributor Kodansha this year at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Sacred Skin, my new book on Thailand´s sacred tattoos, Sak Yant, is now available at Phnom Penh Airport in Cambodia, courtesy of Monument Books who took a few boxes of Sacred Skin off our hands. Photograph by Kraig Lieb.
French blog La Jupette de Jeanette offers a page on my new book Sacred Skin this week!
Writer Chris Taylor reviews my new book, Sacred Skin, in The South China Morning Post. Thailand´s Spirit Taboos In Tom Vater and Aroon Thaewchatturat’s Sacred Skin – a visually compelling antidote to the usual coffee-table tributes to “amazing Thailand” – the reader is taken on a journey into an other-worldly Southeast Asia, a place of [...]
My new book, Sacred Skin, the first English language title on Thailand´s sacred tattoos, Sak Yant, is a currently a bestseller at Phuket airport. Photograph by Kraig Lieb.
My new book, Sacred Skin, the first English language publication on Thailand´s popular sacred tattoos, is a recommended bestseller in Asia Books, Thailand´s premier English language book chain. And Asia Books have just placed another huge order with Sacred Skin publisher Visionary World.
Today’s edition of Courrier International runs a great four page spread of my new book Sacred Skin, the first English language publication on Thailand’s sacred tattoos, Sak Yant.
My new book Sacred Skin, the first English language title on Thailand´s sacred tattoos, Sak Yant, has been very positively reviewed in the current issue of Prediction Magazine in the UK. “top notch eye candy and fascinating insights…”