Angkor Wat
Title | Angkor Wat PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Mannikka |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Angkor (Extinct city) |
ISBN | 9780824823535 |
Mannikka takes the reader on a detailed tour of Angkor Wat, moving from the western entrance bridge, across the long causeway to the central galleries, and up to the central tower itself, showing what the design of the temple tells us about Khmer beliefs regarding their king, their deities, and the world around them. Detailed temple plans illustrating measurement patterns and numerous photographs of all parts of the temple accompany the text. Angkor Wat: Time, Space, and Kingship shows clearly the role that astronomy, history, cosmology, and politics can play in determining a structure's format and dimensions. The new methods of architectural analysis pioneered here will serve as a model for architectural historians in Asia and elsewhere.
The Mysteries of Angkor Wat
Title | The Mysteries of Angkor Wat PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Sobol |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | 41 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0763641669 |
A guided tour by local children leads the author--and readers--inside an ancient Cambodian temple and around its ruins, where they explore the mysteries of the site and discover a little-known secret. 12,000 first printing.
Last King of Angkor Wat, The
Title | Last King of Angkor Wat, The PDF eBook |
Author | Graeme Base |
Publisher | Random House Australia |
Total Pages | 38 |
Release | 2019-01-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0143795384 |
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.
Angkor Wat
Title | Angkor Wat PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Behnke |
Publisher | Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | 84 |
Release | 2008-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 082257585X |
Traces the history and development of one of the largest ancient structures in the world, Angkor Wat.
Khmer Mythology
Title | Khmer Mythology PDF eBook |
Author | Vittorio Roveda |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 194 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Angkor Wat
Title | Angkor Wat PDF eBook |
Author | luke kurtis |
Publisher | bd-studios.com |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 2017-08-04 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 098902668X |
In 1963, Allen Ginsberg traveled to Cambodia and visited the ancient Khmer temples. He wrote "Angkor Wat," an eponymous poem about the temple complex. It was a very different time: pre-Vietnam War, pre-Khmer Rouge, and before the bustling tourism trade that is now the lifeblood of Siem Reap. Yet the Angkor Wat temples themselves remain a unique source of inspiration for poets and photographers who travel there from all over the world. Over half a century later, Angkor Wat by luke kurtis is both the artist's homage to Ginsberg's text as well a celebration of his own pilgrimages to the ancient city. Published in 1968, Ginsberg's Angkor Wat book was a single long poem accompanied by photographs by Alexandra Lawrence. kurtis's book is a suite of poems paired with his original photography. Chronicling the poet's own travels where he explored mythical stories and experienced mystical visions, kurtis's poems take you on a tour of Angkor Wat (and beyond) unlike any other and tell the story of one American poet deepening his Buddhist spirituality.
Of Gods, Kings, and Men
Title | Of Gods, Kings, and Men PDF eBook |
Author | T. S. Maxwell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
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.