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In the words of Chinese traveler Chou Ta Kuan who lived in Angkor for a year in the 13th century: “When the king goes out, troops lead the escort; then come flags, banners and music. Palace women, numbering from three to five hundred, wearing clothes decorated with flowers, with flowers in their [...]
The website Tripbase offer information for would-be travel writers, on the whole very sensible and useful for prospective scribes.
The introduction -The harsh realities laid bare- is both sobering and spot-on: Travel writing is a tough and competitive business, a trade for which one needs to have plenty of persistence and low financial [...]
My new guide to the ruins of Angkor in Cambodia is published on the 4th of January 2011, by Germany`s largest independent travel publisher Reise Know How.
The book contains almost a hundred color images by photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat, as well as maps of all the temples, a fold-out plan of the Angkor Archaeological Park and [...]
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The following review by June Sawyers of the Chicago Tribune of my Moon Cambodia Guide appeared on www.philly.com.
Moon Handbooks: Cambodia
Avalon
If Cambodia is known for one thing, aside from the decades of war and genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge, it would have to be the temple ruins of Angkor, which attract more than a million [...]
Tom Vater’s Moon Spotlight Angkor is available now.
This 60 page guide to the magnificent Angkor temples in Cambodia is part of Tom Vater’s Moon Cambodia Handbook, published in February 2010.
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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 the bustling markets [...]
Tom Vater’s up-coming travel guide to Cambodia, a Moon Handbook, will be published in February 2010. For this first edition title, Tom spent almost six months traveling to every corner of the South East Asian kingdom, covering all major and many minor sites - from Angkor Wat to remote temple ruins lost in the jungle, [...]
Check out the cover of Tom Vater’s up-coming travel guide to Cambodia, a Moon Handbook, out in October 2009.