Tales of the Orient by Simon Ostheimer

Tales of the Orient by Simon Ostheimer

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Tim the Thaiger
Meet Tim Newton, who left behind the cold winter of Melbourne for a new adventure in sunny Phuket, along the way discovering the best (and worst) of…
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A Photo of Life and Death
On 17 April 1975, young French photographer Roland Neveu found himself on the streets of Phnom Penh as the Khmer Rouge made their final push on the…
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Last Plane Out of Cambodia
As the Khmer Rouge finally overran Cambodia in 1975, a former CIA pilot pulled off a desperate escape from Kampong Som at the same time as Phnom Penh…
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Big Fish
Meet Stuart McDonald, founder and owner of Travelfish, which for the last 18 years has been guiding travelers (and travel writers) to places unknown in…
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That's Life
Meet Mark Kitto, former British army soldier turned China media mogul, who lost it all and reinvented himself as an author and actor - including a turn…
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Cool Runnings
Meet Chet Nairene, the American author of 'Pacific Dash', a new novel that follows the Asian adventures of Dashiell Bonaventure, from an Illinois farm…
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Notes from a Desert Island
I recently spent a week on a remote island off southwest Cambodia. With no running water, mains electricity or - gasp, horror - WiFi, it was a true…
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That's City Talk
In a life long ago, when print was still king, I was a magazine editor in China, from entertainment titles in Shanghai to Beijing's first design and…
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It's a Long Way to the Top
To mark the end of 2024 I did something unexpected, and possibly foolhardy. Inspired by a (fitter) friend, I climbed to the top of China's famed Yellow…
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Easy Riders
Always in search of the best photos, Vietnam War-era US photographers Sean Flynn and Dana Stone wound up being captured, and possibly buried, in eastern…
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The French Connection
Meet Paul French, celebrated author of books about the days of old China, including the new 'Her Lotus Year', about the Duchess of Windsor's 1920s…
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Jungle Brother
He gave his life to the land, and - in establishing a protected nature reserve dedicated to preserving the indigenous trees of Malaysia - has left a…
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