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Along The Royal Roads To Angkor | 
 enlarge | Author: Yoshiaki Ishizawa
Publisher: Weatherhill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2106680
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1 Eng ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0834804727
Dewey Decimal Number: 915.96
EAN: 9780834804722
ASIN: 0834804727
Publication Date: July 1, 1999
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Product Description
From the ninth to the fifteenth century, the Angkor Empire was the greatest civilization in Southeast Asia, reaching from the coast of Vietnam to Myanmar, from southern Laos down to the Malay Peninsula. At the heart of this great kingdom ruled by god-kings rose the magnificent towers of Angkor Wat and the nearby capital city of Angkor Thom. The rulers of Angkor were great builders and engineers. They fed their people with a sophisticated irrigation system that made the Cambodian plains green year-round, and they built a network of roads connecting the capital to all the major outlying cities. Along the Royal Roads of Angkor is a photographic journey following those royal roads, featuring 165 stunning images of the many beautiful Angkor-period temples and monuments in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. Photographer Hitoshi Tamura has also captured scenes along the road recording the contemporary lives of the descendants of the Khmers, Chams, Thais, and Mon and Qoi peoples of ancient Angkor. An informative text by Yoshiaki Ishizawa treats the rise and fall of the empire, and the achievements of its rulers, and discusses the important temples and other buildings in detail.
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Angkor, Angkor, Angkor and more Angkor!!! June 4, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I must say there are so many wonderful books published on Angkor and this is another one that I have read so far. Containg excellent photographs of Angkor as well as aspects of Khmer culture and the Khmer people of today. I really enjoyed this book because it contained iformation regarding the history, the layout of Angkor and it's temple that was constructed from 9th-13th century A.D. Angkor was a wonderful civilization of Southeast Asian like that of Aztecs and Mayans in Mesoamerica before the any contains with the first European. The civilization of Angkor flowered and blossom for centuries until it reached it's peak during the 12 century with it's greatest achievement of building Angkor Wat. Then the Khmer civilization declined and slowly was reclaimed by the forest where it remained until the 19th century only to be discovered again like many other civilizations. Great book to have and so much work and effort has gone into making this book that I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to understand a little bit more about Angkor and it's temples.
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