Robert Philpotts

Robert Philpotts (b. 1947) is a British author, illustrator and independent researcher who visited Cambodia in the early 1990s as part of the alternative artist ​‘Road to the East’ in the 1980s.

1) A drawing of Prasat Ta Prohm of Tonle Bati. 2) Head of a makara sculpture. [both in A Guide to Phnom Penh, 1992, courtesy Robert Philpotts].

1) A drawing of Prasat Ta Prohm of Tonle Bati. 2) Head of a makara sculpture. [both in A Guide to Phnom Penh, 1992, courtesy Robert Philpotts].

Publications

• Building the Lancaster Canal, London, Blackwater Books, 1979, repub. 1998: ISBN 13: 9780946623006 
• The Tower of London to Tobacco Dock: Through St Katharine’s Dock and Old Wapping, London, Blackwater Books, 1990, 16 p., ISBN 13: 9780946623020
• A Guide to Phnom Penh, London, Blackwater Books, 1992, 140 p., ISBN 13: 9780946623051
• On Foot in the East End: v. 1 (London, Blackwater Books, 1995,  ISBN 13: 9780946623099), v. 2 (London, Blackwater Press, 1995, ISBN 13: 9780946623143)
• Reporting Angkor : Chou Ta-kuan in Cambodia, 1296 – 1297, London, Blackwater Books, 1996, 90 p., ISBN 13: 9780946623969
• The coast of Cambodia, London, Blackwater Books, 2002, 214 p., ISBN 13: 9780946623242
• South of the Heart: Dry Seasons Journeys between Phnom Penh and Pailin, London, Blackwater Books, 2010, 198 p., ISBN-13: 978 – 0946623075
• Escaping Charcoal (and other stories of Phnom Penh), Blackwater Books, 2012. ISBN 9780946623495. Kindle Edition, 2012.
• Edinburgh to Angkor: John Thomson and ​‘The Antiquities of Cambodia’, London, Blackwater Books, 2017, 176 p. ISBN-13: 978 – 0946623082