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Book Synopsis Of Gods, Kings, and Men by : T. S. Maxwell
Download or read book Of Gods, Kings, and Men written by T. S. Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich and evocative bas-reliefs of Angkor Wat have captured the imagination of travelers, artists, and scholars for centuries. Built for the Khmer king Suryavarman II in the twelfth century, the enormous temple complex consists of an outer enclosure surrounded by a moat, with three further concentric rectangular enclosures inside it. The bas-reliefs featured in this book are carved on the walls of the third enclosure. Jaroslav Poncar has brilliantly captured the detail of these huge reliefs, measuring more than two meters in height and five hundred meters in overall length, using the high-precision technique of slit-scan photography. One hundred full-page panoramic photographs bring readers within the very walls of Angkor. Scenes from the great Indian epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata are expansively explained and interpreted by Angkor expert Thomas S. Maxwell.
Book Synopsis Last King of Angkor Wat, The by : Graeme Base
Download or read book Last King of Angkor Wat, The written by Graeme Base and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiger, Gibbon, Water Buffalo and Geeko are sitting amongst the ruins of ancient Angkor Wat, wondering which of them would have made the best king. The appearance of a mysterious visitor leads them to discover their true selves in a race to distant hilltop. A timeless fable full of adventure and beauty from a much-loved storyteller.
Book Synopsis The Kings of Angkor by : Mary Moriarty
Download or read book The Kings of Angkor written by Mary Moriarty and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the country of Cambodia are the temples of Angkor Wat . The home of the ancient Khmer and their Mighty Kings. Once home to the proud Khmer who at one time ruled what is now present day, SE Asia. Anna Oldenburg came by invitation of a NGO group to help preserve the ancient temples. To work and find ways to save the majestic temples for others to enjoy. Anna had been around ancient temples and archeology all her life. She was a grand niece of one of the best known archeologist of the last century. So it was no surprise when Anna found archeology as her life's work. Landing in Cambodia she found not only her work but also a country that felt strangely familiar. Then there was her host Nurung... Governor of Siem Reap Province but also a prince and the man of her dreams. As long as she could remember she had dreams about Nurung and about the temples of Cambodia, yet they never made any sense until she arrived. When she started working on the temples she felt like she was walking paths she had, a long time ago, but how? She had never been to Cambodia in her life. Anna met Heng, younger cousin to Nurung in College. After months of the same classes, they go to Egypt to work and fall in love. Yet he disappears for lengths of time but always comes back like he only left for a few minutes but never has a good explanation. Then there is Nurung. He is always there, always watchful. Handsome beyond anything Anna could dream of... only she has dreamed of him all her life. These three are brought together not by coincidence but by destiny's call. They are part of a larger picture and they all must take part or possibly be destroyed forever. It's a race against time and making sure history as we know it doesn't get messed up or the present day may not turn out like we know it. Will Anna find out the meaning of her dreams? Who will she give herself to, Heng or Nurung? Will those back in time at the ancient temples of Angkor Wat find a way to destroy all she holds dear... even herself?
Book Synopsis The Kings of Angkor by : Robert Smith
Download or read book The Kings of Angkor written by Robert Smith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Kings of Angkor brings to life the story of the Khmer, the builders of Angkor Wat, the Bayon, and numerous other world renown temples. As with Robert Smith's other novels in the Southeast Asia trilogy ("The Kings of Ayutthaya," and "The Kings of the Toungoo Empire,") the story of the Ankorian civilization is told by re-imagining and dramatizing the exploits of its rulers by building on the historical record left on temple carvings, in written accounts, and from archeological research.It was a time of kings. The novel commences as the future King Jayavarman II forged his kingdom from the weakening influence of the Sailendra Kingdom of Java who occupied the lands of Kambujadesa (Cambodia). His declaration of himself as Devaraja, "The Lord of the Universe who is King," laid the foundation for the birth and future growth of the Khmer Empire. He sets the seeds for an empire not matched in size in southeast Asia until the Burman Toungoo Empire under King Bayinnaung many centuries later.The novel progresses through the time of the successive "varman" kings. Times of religion and religious conflict, of greed, betrayal, death, and internecine strife that run alongside those of loyalty, ingenuity, and determination. The building of temples and barays (reservoirs) are the legacies left that visitors flock to Angkor to see but these do not tell the full story. The novel places these structures, and the events surrounding them, in a context that is made understandable, and enjoyable, for the reader.All empires fall. The novel traces the rise and fall of an empire from its beginnings in 802 A.D. to its fall to the kingdom of Ayutthaya in 1431 A.D. The focus is on the "varman" kings, the builders of Angkor and the kings who took it to its greatest achievements. The decline of the empire was gradual but ended in a bloodbath, similar in many ways, to that leveled by the Burman king, King Hsinbyushin on Ayutthaya in 1767 A.D.The story dramatizes the famous figures in Angkorian history through dialogue, description, and narration while following the historical record as closely as possible, but adding the creative touch of the author. If you have visited or intend to visit Cambodia and Angkor Wat this book makes an ideal companion andplaces what you see in context..Support material for the novel can be found at www.thekingsofayutthaya.com/thekingsofangkor. Robert Smith is a writer living in Phitsanulok, Thailand. He specializes in historical fiction.
Download or read book The Kings of Angkor written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the country of Cambodia are the temples of Angkor Wat . The home of the ancient Khmer and their Mighty Kings. Once home to the proud Khmer who at one time ruled what is now present day, SE Asia.Anna Oldenburg came by invitation of a NGO group to help preserve the ancient temples. To work and find ways to save the majestic temples for others to enjoy.Anna had been around ancient temples and archeology all her life. She was a grand niece of one of the best known archeologist of the last century. George Reisner who had spent his life in Egypt. So it was no surprise when Anna found archeology her life's work.Landing in Cambodia she found not only her work but also a country that strangely felt familiar. Then there was her host Nurung... Governor of Siem Reap Province but a prince and also the man of her dreams.Since she could remember she had dreams about Nurung and about the temples of Cambodia yet they never made any sense till she arrived.When she started working on the temples she felt like she was walking paths she had, a long time ago, but how? She had never been to Cambodia in her life.Heng, younger cousin to Nurung, who Anna had just happened to meet in college, who after months of the same classes, they go to Egypt to work and fall in love. Yet he disappears for lengths of time but always comes back like he only left for a few minutes but never has a good explanation.Then there is Nurung. He is always there, always watchful. Handsome beyond anything Anna could dream of... only she has dreamed of him all her life.These three are brought together not by coincidence but by destiny's call. They are part of a larger picture and they all must take part or possibly be destroyed forever.It's a race against time and making sure history as we know it doesn't get messed up or the present day may not turn out like we know it.Will Anna find out the meaning of her dreams? Who will she give herself to Heng or Nurung? Will those back in time at the ancient temples of Angkor Wat find a way to destroy all she holds dear... even herself?
Book Synopsis The Civilization of Angkor by : Charles Higham
Download or read book The Civilization of Angkor written by Charles Higham and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Civilization of Angkor is remarkable and unique in that it delves into the prehistoric roots of the civilization. Higham is THE international authority on southeast Asian archaeology, and presents an up-to-date and provocative synthesis of Angkor."--Brian Fagan, author of Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations, and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. "In blending archaeological and documentary data to chronicle the rise of this important Southeast Asian state, Higham's rich history of Angkor effectively refutes traditional models of state development in the Mekong region and offers insights regarding the nature of Angkor and the processes that led to its emergence."--Miriam Stark, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i and editor of The Archaeology of Social Boundaries
Book Synopsis Angkor and the Khmer Civilization by : Michael D. Coe
Download or read book Angkor and the Khmer Civilization written by Michael D. Coe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic tour of Cambodian history traces its rediscovery in the mid-nineteenth century and what the latest findings have revealed about Khmer civilization, documenting such periods as the five-century part-Hindu, part-Buddhist empire, the gradual abandonment of Angkor, and the move of the capital downriver to the Phnom Penh area. Reprint.
Book Synopsis Understanding Collapse by : Guy D. Middleton
Download or read book Understanding Collapse written by Guy D. Middleton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.
Book Synopsis Southeast Asia in World History by : Craig Lockard
Download or read book Southeast Asia in World History written by Craig Lockard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sketches an outline of Southeast Asian history from earliest times to the present, showing how the diverse political, economic, social, and cultural patterns developed over several thousand years and the role played by the region in the larger world. Approximately one third will be devoted to the centuries before 1500 CE, when civilizations and kingdoms emerged and some Southeast Asians became active in Asian and Pacific maritime trade networks. It discusses the connections to India and China, the great kingdoms such as Angkor, the maritime trade, and the emergence of diverse cultural traditions, including the Theravada Buddhist, Islamic, and Vietnamese realms. Another third covers the period of Western expansion and colonization between 1500 and 1941, when various Western nations began to gradually influence and then reshape the region and Southeast Asians became more deeply involved with world trade. This includes an extensive discussion of the impact of colonialism on Southeast Asian societies, cultures, economies and politics. The final third examines the rise of nationalism and independence movements, decolonization, the wars in Indochina, and the links between past, present, and future.
Download or read book Ancient Angkor written by Claude Jacques and published by River Books Press Dist A C. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Khmer civilisation centred on Angkor was one of the most remarkable to flourish in Southeast Asia.
Download or read book Angkor written by Hideo Higuchi and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Khmer Kings and the History of Cambodia by : Kenneth So
Download or read book The Khmer Kings and the History of Cambodia written by Kenneth So and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Cambodia is essentially the history of the Khmer kings. Power can be very seductive and addictive; and for this reason, kings or people with power would not voluntarily relinquish what they had and they would use any means necessary to maintain their control for absolute power. Sometimes it was easier for the king to rule his country than his family. This was certainly true for Cambodia when the kings begat many children from their multiple wives and concubines, creating many possible successors in competition for his throne. These shared bloodlines, across multiple generations, resulting in complicated and tumultuous family relationships wherein the family members would conspire against one another for power or the right to rule. This book also discusses the origin of the Khmers and how Chenla, the state under the vassalage of Funan, came to conquer its master state, but ultimately the kingdom had to split into the Land and Water Chenla. The breakup of Chenla brought chaos and civil wars into the region. Srivijaya (Java) invaded Water Chenla and subjugated the country to a vassal state before Jayavarman II declared Kambuja's independence from Java. A new emerging period sprung up and Angkor, also known as the Kambuja Period, replaced Chenla as the dominant state in the region. The ascendancy of Angkor reached its zenith under the reigns of Suryavarman II, the builder of Angkor Wat, and Jayavarman VII, the builder of Bayon. The emergence of Ayutthaya brought economic and military challenges to Angkor, which resulted in the fall of Angkor. The rivalry between Ayutthaya and Angkor pushed the Khmer kings to relocate their capitals farther east which started a new period, known as the Longvek period. Throughout the above periods, the Chief Brahman priests who held hereditary functions since the time of Jayavarman II were always involved in the affairs of the state and were close advisors to the kings. Their roles in shaping up the policies and affairs of the country were second only to those of the kings.
Book Synopsis The Khmer Empire by : Captivating History
Download or read book The Khmer Empire written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Khmer Empire was the greatest player in the political and cultural world of medieval Southeast Asia.
Book Synopsis The King's Last Song, Or, Kraing Meas by : Geoff Ryman
Download or read book The King's Last Song, Or, Kraing Meas written by Geoff Ryman and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a twelfth-century Cambodian king's sense of compassion and justice translate to the present?
Book Synopsis The Last Gods of Indochine by : Samuel Ferrer
Download or read book The Last Gods of Indochine written by Samuel Ferrer and published by Signal 8 Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacquie Mouhot and Paaku the Lotus-Born are divided by six centuries but linked by a common curse. In medieval Cambodia, Paaku is an orphan whose community believes he may be a reluctant incarnation of a god, causing sectarian turmoil for the kingdom's leaders. Meanwhile, in 1921, Jacquie follows the footsteps of her grandfather, a famous explorer, to Indochina, where she becomes immersed in the tragedy of Paaku's history: a story simultaneously unfolding in the intertwined present and past, a story in which she still has a vital role to play.
Download or read book Angkor and Khmer Art written by and published by Parkstone Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angkor, like Borobudur in Indonesia or Vat Phra Kaeo in Thailand, is one of the most important shrines of Buddhist art in all Asia. Angkor is among the treasures of Humanity's Heritage, under the protection of UNESCO. Angkor's temple, built in one of the most populous cities of the 11th century, is a prime example of religious art, but its ""bas reliefs"" also depict events in the lives of kings and their courts, wars and scenes from the everyday life of the common people. Between the 7th and 14th centuries, Khmer art, primarily sculpture, is characterized by perfection of line and monumental size. Profoundly influenced by Indian Art, it is nonetheless original and of obvious refinement. Long out of print, this volume is inspired, in part, by a revival of interest in Cambodian art. It presents the architectural treasures and splendid sculptures of a civilization that drew on Indian and Chinese influences to create a uniquely Cambodian art.
Book Synopsis World Heritage Angkor and Beyond by : Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin
Download or read book World Heritage Angkor and Beyond written by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2011 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Angkor, the temple and palace complex of the ancient Khmer capital in Cambodiais one of the world's most famous monuments. Hundreds of thousands oftourists from all over the globe visit Angkor Park, one of the finest UNESCO WorldHeritage Sites, every year. Since its UNESCO listing in 1992, the Angkor regionhas experienced an overwhelming mushrooming of hotels and restaurants; theinfrastructure has been hardly able to cope with the rapid growth of mass tourismand its needs. This applies to the access and use of monument sites as well. The authors of this book critically describe and analyse the heritage nominationprocesses in Cambodia, especially in the case of Angkor and the temple ofPreah Vihear on the Cambodian/Thai border. They examine the implications theUNESCO listings have had with regard to the management of Angkor Park andits inhabitants on the one hand, and to the Cambodian/Thai relationships on theother. Furthermore, they address issues of development through tourism thatUNESCO has recognised as a welcome side-effect of heritage listings. They raisethe question whether development through tourism deepens already existinginequalities rather than contributing to the promotion of the poor"--Publisher's description.
