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Angkor the Magnificent - Wonder City of Ancient Cambodia
Author: Helen Churchill Candee, Kent Davis (Editor), Randy Bryan Bigham (Afterword)
Publisher: DatASIA, Inc.
Publishing Date: 1st Edition, June 30, 2008
Format: Kindle Edition, Hardcover, Paperback
File Size: 2475 KB
Print Length: 376 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Language: English
ASIN: B001W6Q6G8
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Product Description
"The tale of it is incredible; the wonder which is Angkor is unmatched in Asia." So begins Helen Churchill Candee's classic tale of Asian adventure. Today, readers can again experience the mystery of Cambodia's vast jungle temples through her eyes. Although Helen Candee is best known for surviving the sinking of the RMS Titanic, she walked with kings, presidents, the wealthy and the powerful. entertaining, educating and influencing them. This independent woman championed feminine equality and fought tirelessly for woman's rights. And, as a single woman, she traveled the Far East with a keen eye for detail, an inquisitive mind, and a sensitivity for local culture. Helen Candee's travelogue remains one of the most evocative English language accounts of the ancient Khmer capital. This expanded hardcover edition marks the first reissue of her complete 1924 work with more than 100 antique illustrations, an index and bibliography. For the first time in print, this edition also features an original biography of Helen Candee by historian Randy Bryan Bigham, and a reprint of Candee's original account of the Titanic disaster itself.

Angkor the Magnificent - Wonder City of Ancient Cambodia

By Admin | Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Khmer Women on the Move: Exploring Work and Life in Urban Cambodia (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory)
Author: Annuska Derks
Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
Publishing Date: 1st Edition, June 2008
Paperback: 258 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0824832701
ISBN-13: 978-0824832704
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Khmer Women on the Move: Exploring Work and Life in Urban Cambodia (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory)

By Admin | Monday, December 26, 2011
At the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler (Studies on Southeast Asia)
Author: Anne Ruth Hansen, Judy Ledgerwood
Publisher: Cornell Univ Southeast Asia Program
Publishing Date: May 16, 2008
Paperback: 248 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 087727746X
ISBN-13: 978-0877277460
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Book Description
Inspired by the groundbreaking work of David Chandler on Cambodian attempts to find order in the aftermath of turmoil, these essays explore Cambodian history using a rich variety of sources that cast light on Khmer perceptions of violence, wildness, and order, the "forest" and cultured space, and the fraught "edge" where they meet. Taken together, the essays offer a post-colonial analysis of Cambodia's emergence from genocide that explores the relationship between narrative, history, and perplexing problems of meaning.

At the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler (Studies on Southeast Asia)

By Admin | Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Angkor & Cambodia in the 16th Century: According to Portuguese and Spanish Sources
Author: Bernard P. Groslier
Publisher: Orchid Press
Publishing Date: November 15, 2006
Hardcover: 208 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9745240532
ISBN-13: 978-9745240537
Format: Hardcover
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Book Description
This is the first English translation of an important study of the records of early Spanish and Portuguese missionaries and adventurers, which comprise one of the earliest surviving first hand accounts of the Khmers and of Angkor, and the sole records of Western visitors, four hundred years prior to the arrival of the French in Indo-

Angkor & Cambodia in the 16th Century: According to Portuguese and Spanish Sources

By Admin | Saturday, December 17, 2011