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Book Review: Photo Therapy

Bookshop photography sections are turgid with tomes about tweaking exposures, color calibration, and the zone system and many of the spines carry the name of Rick Sammon, award-winning travel photographer. So perhaps it should be no surprise that Sammon has written a book about how to use your brain – the key photo “accessory”. “Photo

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Book Review: Not Afraid of the Fall

114 Days Through 38 Cities in 15 Countries I picked this book up in an airport bookshop pre-pandemic and started reading it on the long flight home from South Korea. When I walked in my front door, I tossed it and everything else aside for a few weeks while I dived back into work. A

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Book Review: Sihpromatum

Most travel essay books approach travel from the perspective of a lone traveler. Few are written by a vagabond family of four. Sihpromatum is a self-published book written by Savannah Grace, one of two sisters, a mother and a brother from Vancouver that traveled across China and Mongolia on the cheap. Traveling 2nd or 3rd

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About Kevin

Kevin Chambers is a former diplomat, professor, international businessperson and life-long traveler. His books include A Traveler’s Guide to Asian Customs and Manners, A Travelers’ Guide to Asian Culture, Succeed in Business: Taiwan, Succeed in Business: Vietnam, Lonely Planet’s Korean Phrasebook, and Lonely Planet’s Japanese Phrasebook (with Wes Palmer)

My Books

The Travelers' Guide to Asian Customs & Manners

How to converse, dine, tip, bargain, dress, make friends and do business while in Asia, Australia and New Zealand

Succeed in Business: Taiwan

The essential guide for business and investment in Taiwan. Combines relevant, practical information with the real-life insights and cultural know-how that make a difference between success and failure.

Succeed in Business: Vietnam

The essential guide for business and investment in Taiwan. Combines relevant, practical information with the real-life insights and cultural know-how that make a difference between success and failure.​

A Traveler's Guide to Asian Culture

Gives you the background you will need to make sense of almost everything you will see in Asia. Includes discussions of Asian art and religion and history from 3000 CE to the present.

My Photography

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