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Angkor: An Introduction to the Temples (Angkor (Odyssey), 3rd ed)

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This excellent guide to the temples contains sections of introduction to Khmer architecture, art, religion, and history and then a site-by-site guide to the temples with plans, descriptions, and tips for better exploration. The book also contains highly evocative quotations from the literature of earlier travelers. The only improvement would be for the photographs to more closely illustrate the text in the introductory sections, as they do beautifully in the site guide sections. The guide prepared me extremely well for my visit, and I brought it to the sites to get more out of them -- there's a lot to see!

Great book with wonderful contents about the ancient ruins of Angkor. I found it very interesting since the book because it contained maps and diagrams of the temples and their whole layout. Of the best was that of Angkor Wat which is very well known by the Khmer people. Great attention was paid to the writing on this book and I found that this book is essential for those who want to explore Angkor itself. Wonderful photographs of the ancient ruins discovered late last century. The book actually covers most of the temples in and surrounding Angkor including the wonderful temple of Banteay Srey which is still considered by many as the "jewel of Khmer art" because of it's dependly carved statues and for the rose coloured sandstone temple which dwarfs Angkor Wat but built several hundred years earlier. Yet spectacular in it's right and so is this book too... I give it the thumbs up and yes... soon the understand for Angkor and it's mystery will grow...