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Manang – a village in the Himalayas which was unchanged for centuries
when Zdeněk Thoma visited and photographed there in 1979. Thirty years
later, his son Michal followed in his father’s footsteps and has since
put together a joint-exhibition about Manang which you can see at The House
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PanoramaMichal Thoma – Traveller, photographer, writer – Part 1
Michal Thoma – like his father Zdeněk – is a well-known Czech
photographer, traveller, and author focussing on countries in Asia,
including India and Nepal. Publishing in Czech alternatives to National
Geographic like Lidé a Země and Koktejl, Michal and his father and mum,
have made travel writing and photography in exotic countries pretty much a
family business and the Thoma name something of a ‘trademark’. In Part
I, of this special Panorama Michal talks about how he got into photography
and travel, beginning with his father’s career. More
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Current AffairsRoving exhibition remembers Iraq adventure of Zikmund & Hanzelka
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of his third journey, in 1908, he learned to his dismay that the Chamacoco
were being decimated by a mysterious illness. Through a curious mix of
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