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We treasure our world's caleidoscope of cultures where
we often find something special
hidden in the mundane, something we didn't see because  we
never really looked.
Visionary World Publishers likes to be your eyes,
always searching passionately for
what makes us unique and human.
NEWS!
"VIETNAM ZIPPOS" ON LIST OF "BEST BOOKS 2007" AT AMAZON.COM!
Vietnam Zippos was picked as
number 32 in the top 100 Best Books of 2007 by the Amazon editors.
To read more about it at amazon.com, click here.
New title, autumn 2007:
Vietnam Zippos! Read more here.
30 November 2006:
An interview with Hans Kemp about Bikes of Burden
was aired on ABC News Now cable in the USA in October 2006. Click on the image
to watch and listen. The interview is about 11 minutes long.
If you like to view
the interview in a larger, separate window, just click
here.
1 December 2005:
Our new book "Ardent Eye" is finally printed and ready
for distribution. Read more
about it here.
21 June 2005:
We are pleased to note that a product from our
humble little company has become the source of inspiration and influence among
the world's political and economic dignitaries.
None less than an American
senator has found one of our books to be the perfect stimulant to improve the
US-Vietnam trade relationship:
 I
recently saw a fantastic picture book of Vietnam, which certainly dispelled these
stereotypes. The picture book – called ‘Bikes
of Burden’ – should be required reading for anyone interested in
Vietnam today.
The book has 150 pages of pictures of people
on motorbikes. In one photo, a motorbike driver – sporting a baseball cap, sunglasses, and jeans – carries
hundreds of ducks to market on the back of his bike. In another, a driver precariously
balances his delivery of seven bed mattress on his Honda Dream motorbike. In
another, laughing Vietnamese schoolgirls clad in beautiful white ao dais whisk
through Ho Chi Minh City in the late afternoon sun.
This surely is not the vision of Vietnam Yesterday.
Instead, this book captures the vision of Vietnam Today. A vision of commerce
everywhere you look. A vision of 80 million vendors and consumers buying and
selling something on every corner of every street of every city. A vision of
motorbikes and cars whizzing by smart new office towers and industrial parks.”
U.S. SENATOR MAX BAUCUS,
in a keynote speech on U.S.-Vietnam
Trade and Economic Relations
21 June 2005.
Quote from American Chamber of Commerce.
Read the entire speech here.
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