Go your own way in Cambodia with the most extensive guide to the kongdom: discover awe-inspiring temples, explore remote mountainous regions, laze on tranquil beaches or live it up in cosmopolitan Phnom Penh.

• 57 detailed maps and temple plans
• new, expanded coverage of the remote northern and eastern provinces
• food and accommodation suggestions for every budget
• includes Khmer script and invaluable language chapter

The great legacy of the ancient Khmer civilization, the temples of Angkor, cover an area of 77 square miles in central Cambodia.
These monuments, built between the ninth and 15th centuries -- the classic period of Khmer art -- are unrivaled in architectural greatness. They are, undoubtedly, one of the wonders of the world, astounding in their splendor and evoking a real sense of awe.
The book is divided into three sections.
The first contains background information on Khmer history, religious beliefs and legends depicted on the bas-reliefs, as well as descriptions of the decorations and architectural features.
The second part is a detailed, monument-by-monument guide to the sites, including detailed maps and plans, while the third has all the practical information needed by the visitor, for staying and getting around in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh.

• 308 pages
• 72 illustrations
• 30 easy-to-use maps
• Literary excerpts
• Historical overvieuw
• Guide to cultural sites
• Practical information
• Recommended reading

This concise, up-dated edition of the award winning A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia is the most comprehensive compact guide to this magnificent bird-rich region.

• Over 140 full-colour plates by a range of expert artists covering major plumage variations
• All 1.270 species covered in detail
• Up-to-date text covers the identification, voice, habitat, behaviour and range of all the species and distinctive subspecies of the region
• A complete field and reference guide to the birds of Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Also covers a wide range of species found in the Indian subcontinent, China, Taiwan, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo and the Philippines

Ever since 1860 when the explorer and naturalist Henri Mouhot rediscovered the temples af Angkor in Cambodia, the beaty and majesty of these magnificent buildings, dating from the eight to the fourteenth century, has exerted an enduring fascination. Angkor was the centre of Kmer civilization, which at its hight streched as far west as the present day border of Thailand and Burma and north to Wat Phu in Laos.

This sumptuous pictorial record reveals the most significant monuments of Angkor, including the glorious Angkor Wat itself, the overgrown thirteenth century temples of Ta Prohm and Preah Khan, and the exquisite Banteay Srei with its intricate carvings in pink sandstone, in brilliant photographs by Michael Freeman. The illustrations are united with an authoritative text by the renowned expert on inscriptions, Claude Jacques, who has made the study of Angkor and its surrounding cities his life work. He describes Angkor's history against a fascinating background of Kmer society, kingship, religion and culture.

With a comprehensive chronology and glossary of terms ANGKOR; Cities and Temples is both an essential source of reference for specialists in Southeast Asian culture and history and a remarkable visual record of the extraordinary and mysterious achievements of Kmer civilization.

All the major temples in the Angkor complex are described in this pictorial guide, starting with Angkor Wat and the monuments within Angkor Thom, and moving out to the temples in the surrounding landscape.
Commissioned photographs show temples in their entirety as well as important details, including sculpture, architectural decoration and the reliefs, which are among the chief glories of the place.

Thierry Zéphir is head of research at the National Museum of Asian Arts, the Musée Guimet, in Paris and also a professor at the École du Louvre, where he teaches courses on India and the countries of the Indianised world.
Since 1991 he has regular taught students in teh Faculty of Archeology in Phnom Penh.
In 1997 he curated the international exhibition: Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia - Millennium of Glory.

Photographer Luca Invernizzi Tettoni left Italy in 1978 and has lived in Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore. He is well known for his photography of sculpture and archealogy in South and Southeast Asia.

The Tonle Sap, Cambodia's Great Lake and its yearly flood is one of Southeast Asia's natural wonders. In the dry season measuring 'only' 150 by 20 kilometres, by the peak of the wet season it has expanded to some 250 kilometres long and in places more than 100 kilometres wide, increasing in depth from 1 to more than 10 metres and in area from 2,500 to about 13,000 square kilometers.
This annual phenomenon has given rise not only to the great ancient empire of Angkor, but to one of the world's most productive fisheries and the last stronghold for some of the world's most endangered large waterbirds.

Colin Poole, Director of the Asia Program for the Wildlife Conservation Society lived in Cambodia for eight years, while Eleanor Briggs has been photographing on the Tonle Sap for more than ten years. Through text and photographs together they examine all aspects of the Tonle Sap and Cambodia's fascinating and beautiful environment, its fauna, history, culture and future.

Laos en Cambodja, twee landen op de drempel van de toekomst. Hoewel ze aan elkaar grenzen en vaak in één adem worden genoemd, zijn de verschillen tussen beide landen opmerkelijk. Het landschap, de sfeer, de taal, de mensen, het eten, en zelfs het boeddhisme zijn in Laos en Cambodja heel verschillend.
Er zijn natuurlijk ook overeenkomsten. Beide landen staan vermeld op Unesco's lijst van Werelderfgoederen. Laos met Luang Prabang, een juweel aan de Mekong met tientallen historische tempels. Cambodja met Angkor, een van de mooiste tempelcomplexen ooit gebouwd. Na jaren van isolement, staan Laos en Cambodja nu open voor iedereen die de tijd neemt en zich niet te veel stoort aan lekkende hotels en hobbelige wegen.

The Siam Society edition of Zhou Daguan's account of the customs of late thirteenth century Cambodia was first published in 1987. In this Second Edition (1992) the text of the first edition has been retained in its entirety but many new b./w. photographs have been included.

The book is an account of Cambodia by Zhou Daguan, who visited the country as part of an official diplomatic delegation sent by Temür Khan in 1296 to deliver an imperial edict.
It is not certain when it was completed, but it was written within 15 years of Zhou's return to China in 1297. However, the work that survives today is believed to be a truncated version, perhaps representing only around a third of the original size.

Groslier’s seminal study of the accounts of early Spanish and Portuguese missionaries and adventurers in Cambodia was published in French in 1958, and is translated here into English for the first time.
The reports of the Europeans record the earliest surviving first-hand accounts of Angkor, following the ‘rediscovery’ of the site by the Khmers, over a hundred years after its abandonment in 1432 CE, and four hundred years prior to the colonization of Cambodia by the French.
While the accounts are fascinating in their own right, Groslier employssome of their key observations on the structure of Angkor in the 16th centuryto embark on further exploration of his own into the nature of Khmer civilization. Complementing his studies of the early accounts with the first aerial surveys of the site, Groslier reconstructs a broad picture of Angkorian civilization, its economy, the genius of its engineers and planners, its unique religious foundations and the pivotal humanitarian role of its god-kings.
"Angkor and Cambodia in the Sixteenth Century" represents one of the major breakthroughs in our understanding of this rich and complexmedieval Asian culture, and is a pillar on which all subsequent studies have been built. Essential for all readers, both scholarly and lay, who seek tofurther understand the society responsible for the construction of the greatmonuments of ancient Angkor.

In de ban van de Mekong verkent Sjon Hauser vanuit zijn woonplaats Chiang Mai gedurende ruim een jaar deze grootste en meest imposante rivier van Zuidoost-Azië.
Nu eens gaat de reis op een scooter langs de oevers, dan weer zakt hij de rivier af in een vrachtschuit of hydrofoil. In bergdorpjes in het Thaise deel van de Gouden Driehoek woont hij een schommelfestival en de opiumoogst bij, tijdens het nieuwjaar in Luang Prabang (Laos) constateert hij dat het boeddhisme er dertig jaar Pathet Lao met glans heeft overleefd. In Noordoost-Thailand verdiept hij zich in het hardnekkige geloof dat naga's – reusachtige serpenten met bovennatuurlijke eigenschappen – de rivier bevolken. En in Cambodja voert de Mekong hem naar de wieg van Pol Pot en de beruchte Killing Fields.
Of het nu het smakelijk verorberen van gefrituurde vogelspin betreft, of Hausers bezinning op zijn vroegere deelname aan demonstraties tegen de Vietnamoorlog: niemand anders weet de lezer op zo'n persoonlijke en indringende wijze mee te nemen naar de streek die hem lief is, maar soms ook onaangenaam kan verrassen.

Sjon Hauser woont en werkt sinds 1983 in Chiang Mai. Behalve talloze artikelen voor kranten en tijdschriften schreef hij verschillende reisgidsen en boeken, waaronder Thailand; Zacht als zijde, buigzaam als bamboe.

This moving and image-rich cycle of linked poems journeys from Cambodia’s mythic time, through the “killing fields" to the UN presence during the first “free & fair,” since the French colonial period. It bears witness to the plight of the Cambodian people and to all people who have endured holocausts.

"In Storytelling in Cambodia Willa Schneberg writes a searing account of one of the darkest moments in modern history, Schneberg's haunting verse testimony, her portraits of those who dragged a once peaceful country into the nightmare of genocide, her passionate homage to an ancient culture now irrevocably lost move the reader even as they horrify."
Carolyn Forche

"Storytelling in Cambodia bears witness, in poem after poem, to the rawness of remembered passion. Willa Schneberg’s poems about Cambodia, where she worked in the early 1990s for the UN, beautifully convey the sensuousness, excitement, and uncertainty of a peculiar, tumultuous time. All of her poems take us with her as she catches often painful experiences in her hands like water from a tap and then, with transcendent skill, into creations that shimmer in the heat.”
David P. Chandler