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Tom Vater’s 2006 non-fiction title Beyond the Pancake Trench bootlegged in Cambodia

April 12, 2010April 12, 2010tomLeave a Comment

While I was in Cambodia last week, I noticed that my 2006 non-fiction title Beyond the Pancake Trench is still available as a photocopied bootleg in several outlets around the country. My very own work, pirated by nefarious greedy people, does not sell nearly as well as the multitude of Lonely Planet titles that are […]

Teaching the Termites – Tom Vater on the pleasures of hotel libraries

October 27, 2009April 7, 2010tomLeave a Comment

I love libraries, bookshops, even a pile of books to look through will do. And I like hotels with a decent library. Most hotels I stay in, whether up-scale, flea-pit or somewhere in between, don’t have libraries. A couple months ago, I was staying at the Z Hotel in Puri, Orissa, India, one of my […]