Photos Books André Malraux: The Indochina Adventure
A laudatory, one-sided, study on the less than two years André Malraux spent in then Indochina, from December 1923 to December 1925.Publications Un voyage au Laos [A Journey into Laos]
A short yet vivid description of Laos in the 1920s, with references to Angkor-related legends.Publications Un voyage a la cour du roi Nom-Rodon (lettre sur le Cambodge, Nocor Khmer)
A visit to Phnom Penh Royal Palace in 1870, only four years after its construction started.Publications 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.Books Visions d'Extreme-Orient, Coree, Chine, Indochine, Siam, Birmanie | Visions of the Far East, Korea, China, Indochina, Siam, Burma
From Korea to Cambodia and Lao, a quite perceptive travelogue from the 1920s.Publications 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 a vengeance later.Photos Visions of Indochina by...Maurice Menardeau
A talented, wandering artist who visited Vietnam and Cambodia twice in the 1930s.Books Pistes, fleuves et jungles: A travers l'Indochine et les pays voisins [Trails, Rivers, Jungles: Across Indochina and Neighboring Countries]
A pleasant read from a typical French 'grand reporter' of the 1930s who befriended famous journalist Albert Londres.Books 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.Books L'Annam et le Cambodge, Voyages et récits historiques
With a map of "Indochina", an expanded version of Pere Bouillevaux's 1858 book.Books 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.