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DVW has its own publishing house and here is its first offering

January 12, 2012 Alex ShoumatoffBlog1 Comment0

January 12, 2012 : Ohla amigos, DispatchesFromTheVanishingWorld.com has just launched its own print-on-demand, Kindle- and Ipad-downloadable publishing house, Last Look Books, with a new edition of my first book, retitled Postcards From Florida. With your support we hope to have twenty more titles out by the end of the year. Some of them will be …Read More

#64: Cartagena Redux

June 16, 2011 Alex ShoumatoffDispatches, reader alertsLeave a comment0

BY: ALEX SHOUMATOFF
The Mogollons, leading citizens of Cartegena, have asked us to dinner. Lucho was the administrator of the port for many years. He went to Exeter and speaks flawless American English. Yolanda, his stylish wife, runs the modern art museum. Their daughter Pia is in charge of restoring the extraordinary fortifications of this picturesque …Read More

#48: A Primer on Cambodia – Slideshow

July 1, 2008 Alex ShoumatoffDispatches, reader alertsLeave a comment0

by Hajnal Kiss

A Primer on Cambodia, by Hajnal Kiss on Vimeo.

Hajnal is a 32-year-old woman from Budapest, Hungary, who was an exchange student for the winter term at the McGill School of Business. She heard the talk I gave to Karl Moore’s class see the link above “how can I become involved.” Her primer on …Read More

#48: A Primer on Cambodia

July 1, 2008 Alex ShoumatoffDispatches, reader alertsLeave a comment0

A unique South-East Asia experience – Cambodia, the land of Khmer people

By Hajnal Kiss
Hajnal is a 32-year-old woman from Budapest, Hungary, who was an exchange student for the winter term at the McGill School of Business. She heard the talk I gave to Karl Moore’s class see the link above “how can I become involved.” …Read More

#44: How to Reduce Your Footprint in Motion

January 20, 2008 Alex ShoumatoffDispatches, reader alertsLeave a comment0

Coming from a long line of Russian naturalists and explorers, it’s not surprising that I  should  have ended up making my livelihood by traveling to the world’s kamchatki, as Russians call faraway places– remote, inaccessible corners of the planet like the Amazon, Madagascar, and Tibet– and writing about them. Had I been born a hundred …Read More

#17: A Long Weekend in Armenia

February 22, 2004 Alex ShoumatoffDispatches, reader alerts0

Update, November 2004:
We have just posted some movies in Apple Quicktime format from when Alex Shoumatoff (aka “The Suitcase”) was in Armenia researching this dispatch.  The 12 Gates “Beautiful City Jam” below is a traditional spiritual as played by the Reverend Gary Davis.  Please click on the links below to view them in a browser …Read More

#6: Journal of the Flamingo

September 29, 2002 Alex ShoumatoffDispatchesLeave a comment0

by Alex Shoumatoff
I wrote this for Men’s Journal in l998, was paid, and never heard from them again and forgot about it myself, so I can only speculate on the reasons why it was never published. I am posting it as an interim dispatch, taking a quick breather from my book, because it illustrates the …Read More

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