Books Books The Land of the White Elephant: Sights & Scenes in South-Eastern Asia
Part of a 2-year business trip from Burma to Siam, Cambodia and Singapore, the first published description of Angkor by an American citizen.Books Wondrous Angkor
A quite insightful guidebook of Angkor temples aimed at affluent English-speaking tourists in the 1930s.Publications 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 of a race far ahead in all arts and sciences."Publications 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.Publications "Angkor Wat" ("Ankor Wat") by Allen Ginsberg
A literary monument to Angkor, "Kingdom Come or Kingdom Yore".Photos Lucille Douglass' Drawings for New Journeys in Old Asia
A series of etchings made by an American female artist discovering Cambodia and Asia in the 1920s.Films "Ankor Wat" read by Allen Ginsberg (1969)
The Beat Generation forward-thinker spent five days in Angkor during his 1963 journey from India to Japan. Here is his voice.Photos Andy Warhol's Sketches of Angkor
When the Pop-Art Superstar in-the-making was visiting and drawing Angkor in 1956.Books The Customs of Cambodia [1st English Translation]
The first ever English translation of Zhou Daguan's celebrated account of Angkor in 1296-7, from Paul Pelliot's 1902 French translation.Books 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 in 1950-1.Photos Visions of Angkor by...Carl Werntz
Photographic essays or paintings by famous or budding artists. A forum for creators, a compilation of reference visual arts renditions of Angkor.