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Sacred Skin, my book on Thailand’s sacred tattoos, with images by Aroon Thaewchatturat, a current bestseller in Southeast Asia, has been reviewd on a blog named Free Tattoo Patterns Online who had this to say: “…Vater has a long history of writing about the subcultures of this part of the world and talks with authority […]
Continue ReadingIn this month’s issue of Geographical, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society: Reviving the spice of life Pepper from Cambodia’s Kampot region was once world renowned, but the industry almost disappeared under the Khmer Rouge. Now, a new initiative is helping to reinject some spice into Kampot’s growers. Luke Duggleby photographs. Tom Vater reports
Continue ReadingVeteran roving Asia reporter Ron Gluckman wrote a great review of my new book Sacred Skin, the first English language book on Thailand’s spirit tattoos, in the Wall Street Journal, in tandem with a look at another soon to be published title on the same subject by Joe Cummings and Dan White.
Continue ReadingJust 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 […]
Continue ReadingSacred Skin, top attractions at the booths of Hong Kong publisher Visionary World and UK Distributor Kodansha this year at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Continue ReadingSacred 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.
Continue ReadingFrench blog La Jupette de Jeanette offers a page on my new book Sacred Skin this week!
Continue ReadingWriter 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 […]
Continue ReadingMy 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.
Continue ReadingMy 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.
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