Displaying 54 Search Results for “tonle sap”:

Books

• Tonle Sap: The Heart of Cambodia's Natural Heritage

  A geographical, historical, ecological survey of the 'Great Lake'.

• Troubling the Water: a dying lake and a vanishing world in Cambodia

  A poignant -- albeit sometimes heavy on dystopia -- depiction of the ecological and human landscape of the "Great Lake"...

• Lumieres d'Orient / Eastern Lights

  From Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Madurai (South India) and Canton (Guanghzou), an inspiring travelogue towards Angkor, with a magnificient description, and...

• Description du Royaume Thai ou Siam

  An early account of Angkor and pre-colonial Cambodial included in this compendium on the Siamese Kingdom in the 1830s-1850s.

• A World of Water: Rain, Rivers and Seas in Southeast Asian Histories

  A crosscultural, multidisciplinary, study on water, its economic and social impact, and its symbolism.

• Les "marches" d'Angkor | Guide archéologique du Cambodge | Archaeological Guide of Cambodia T. VI

  The spatial development of pre-Angkorean and Angkorean religious and social systems in a vast area spreading from Tonle Sap Lake...

• Comment j'ai parcouru l'Indo-Chine: Birmanie, États shans, Siam, Tonkin, Laos

  A European woman's view on Southeast Asia at the turn of the 20th century

• Nouvelle géographie universelle, La terre et les hommes, VIII: L'Inde et l'Indo-Chine

  The astonishingly vivid and detailed Geography of India and Indochina by French free-thinker Élisée Reclus.

• En sampan sur les lacs du Cambodge et a Angkor

  A colorful description of Cambodia, its geography and its people at the turn of the century.

• Henri Mouhot, premier explorateur du Laos (1826-1861)

  A documented profile of the later-acclaimed explorer, who had died in Laos and whose fame had not been yet established.

• Chasses au tigre et a l'éléphant: un hiver au Cambodge / A Winter in Cambodia

  One of the first published travel accounts from French explorers at the end of the 19th century, with hunting anecdotes...

• Buddhapāda: In the Buddha's Footprints

  A quest for Buddha's footprint artworks from India and Sri Lanka to China to Japan, South Korea, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos...

• A Dragon Apparent (Travels in Indo-China)

  With rumors of Indochina war as a backdrop, a highly personal and highly enjoyable travelogue through Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia...

• Elephant train, Phnom Penh to Bangkok in 1871

  A picturesque and pertinent travelogue of the 1871 mission set to rescue Cambodian princesses from Bangkok.

• Five Years in Siam, From 1891 to 1896, Vol II

  Second volume of a remarkable account of the Siamese, Cambodian and Laotian societies, geographical surveys and mining explorations.

• Voyage et séjour aux ruines des monuments kmers

  Picturesque account of the Aymonier-Delaporte mission to Angkor in the 1870s

• Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad

  Back to the intellectual and aesthetical origins of Hindu architecture and its Southeast Asian derivatives, particularly in the Khmer tradition.

• Poison Arrows: Strange Journey with an Opium Dreamer, Annam, Cambodia, Siam and The Lotos Isle of Bali

  A smart feminist in 1935 Angkor. Sensuality, hints to opium-enticed paradises, Bali women: "Asia lifted its curtain at the moonlit...

• Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia and Laos

  The English, more complete version of the historic travelogue by naturalist and explorer Henri Mouhot.

• The Angkorian city: From Hariharalaya to Yashodharapura

  An exhaustive update on contemporary archaelogical finds, and what we do know about the urbanistic development of the Angkorian city.

• A l'ombre d'Angkor | In the Shadow of Angkor

  An inspired and perceptive exploration of the remains of the Ancient Khmer civilization at the start of the colonial era.

Links

• Tonle Sap Lake CAPFISH-Pavilion Documentation

  Documentation database on ecotourism perspectives for TSBR area.

Publications

• Notes sur la peche du Tonli-Sap (lac du Cambodge) | Notes on Tonle Sap Fishing

  A detailed description of fishing activities and techniques in the largest lake of Southeast Asia at the end of the...

• Unearthing an Atlantean Myth in Angkor

  Unearthing an Atlantean myth in Angkor: geoarchaeological investigation of the ‘underwater road’ crossing the Tonle Sap Lake

• On Post-Hellenistic Influences in Southeast Asia, Based on New Materials Recently Found in Southern Thailand and around Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia

  Artifacts excavated in the Tonle Sap Lake area show links with maritime trade in the pre-Angkorian period, and hellenistic influences...

• The Ruins of Angkor

  A 1931 account of Angkor, "the city of mystery".

• Notes on the Antiquities and Natural History of Cambodia

  These informative notes stand among the earliest descriptions of Angkor and pre-colonial Cambodia by Western travelers.

• Reconfiguring Kingdoms: the end of Angkor and the emergence of Early Modern period Cambodia

  Spatial and methodological suggestions for a renewed study of Angkor decline and the transition to early modern Cambodia.

• Did Traditional Cultures Live in Harmony with Nature? Lessons from Angkor, Cambodia

  Far from the idyllic vision of an intrinsically 'eco-friendly' pre-industrial world, how the water resources management in Angkor impacted the...

• Report of an Expedition Made into Southern Laos and Cambodia in the Early Part of the Year 1866

  'British spy' or first adventurous British tourist in Angkor? A young consular official's lively report of photographer John Thomson's journey.

• Ma visite aux ruines cambodgiennes en 1850 | 'My visit to the ruins of Cambodia in 1850'

  Realizing he had overlooked the significance of Angkor in his previous travelogues, the resourceful and pugnacious abbot came back with...

• Fish Scenes, Symbolism, and Kingship in the Bas-Reliefs of Angkor Wat and the Bayon

  Follow the fish: what fish representations in Angkorean bas-reliefs can tells us about ancient history.

• Notice sur le Royaume de Khmer ou de Kambodge

  The earliest contribution on Angkor published in an European scientific journal by a Southeastasian scholar.

• Rivers, Oceans, and Spirits: Water Cosmologies, Gender, and Religious Change in Southeast Asia

  The centrality of water in Southeast Asian cosmologies.

• The Botanist's Corner

  Angkor Database 'Botanist's Corner' aspires at furthering the titanic work initiated by Cambodian botanist Pauline Dy Pho

• Mahendraparvata: The City on The Hill

  Probably the major archeological finding for the year 2019, result of a 20-year prospection on Phnom Kulen Plateau.

• One Hundred Years of Solipsism: The Malraux Case Revisited

  One century later, André Malraux's raid on Banteay Srei bas-reliefs is still raising interest and controversy.

• From Bungalow d'Angkor to Hotel des Ruines to Auberge Royale des Temples: 1909-1976

  The six-decade history of the one and only accommodation inside Angkor Archaeological Park.

• Survey of the Southern Provinces of Cambodia in the Pre-Angkor Era

  South of Phnom Penh, archaelogical research have contributed to a better understanding of the Funan and Chenla periods.

• A Cambodian Vocabulary by Henri Mouhot

  An appendix to his Travels shows the famous explorer's interest in Khmer language.

• Travels in Siam and Cambodia

  "The temple stands solitary and alone in the jungle, in too perfect order to be called a ruin, a relic...

• About Jean Moura's house and Khmer collection

  Mystery surrounds the auction sale of the first 'Director of the Protectorate of Cambodia''s archive and collection in 2017.

Films

• Cambodia & Angkor in the 1930s

  A rare travel film on Cambodia in the 1930s.

• Angkor: Lessons for the Modern World

  The dependency of Angkor to water management, explored and commented before Lidar research taught us more about the ancient irrigation...

• រឿងប្រាសាទអង្គរវត្ត - រឿងនិទានខ្មែរ | Khmer Legends on the Building of Angkor

  អ្នកនិពន្ធចង់និយាយអំពីរឿងរ៉ាវដ៍យូរលង់ណាស់មកហើយនិយាយពីព្រះឥន្រ្តមនុស្សលោកព្រះពិស្នុកានិងស្តេចព្រះកេតុមាលាផងដែរ។ | About the "human Indra", Preah Pisnouka

Images

• Visions of Angkor by...Solange Brand

  Never-seen-before photographs of Angkor temples and Siem Reap River dating back to 1968.

Authors

• Martin Polkinghorne

  Martin Polkinghorne is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Flinders University, Australia. Between 2011 and 2014, he led the Australian...

• Phoeurng Sackona

  H.E. Phoeurng Sackona ភឿង សកុណា (8 Oct. 1959), Cambodia's Minister of Culture and Fine Arts since 2013, has launched a...

• Peou Hang

  Doctor in hydrology, HANG Peou is Deputy Director General of APSARA Authority. He has extensively studied the hydraulic system of...

• Herbert Warington Smyth

  Herbert Warington Smyth, "Warington" (4 June 1867 – 19 Dec. 1943, Redruth, UK) was a British traveler, writer, naval officer...

• Jean Moura

  Jean Moura (3 Apr 1827, Moissac, France - 17 May 1885) was a French Navy officer, civil administrator, Khmerologist and...

• Suthep Kritsanavarin

  Suthep Kritsanavarin is a Thailand leading photojournalist covering environmental, social and humanitarian issues in Southeast Asia for nearly two decades...

• Arjay Stevens

  Rainer J."Arjay" Stevens (b. April 1945, Bingen, Germany) is an independent photographer and researcher who has been covering Cambodia's cultural...

• Christophe Gargiulo

  Christophe Gargiulo (b. 19 Sep 1962, New Caledonia) is a film director, photographer and writer based in Cambodia since 2005...