Travels

America's favorite explorer during the Roaring Twenties, the wide-eyed and closeted gay man who wanted to follow the path of Ulysses at a tender age, Richard…

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Like for contemporary Harry Hervey of King Cobra fame, Richard Halliburton had met instant success with his first published book, The Royal Road to Romance…

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One of the smartest insights of the French colonial system in Southeast Asia by an Anglo-Saxon political scientist in the 1930s.

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An early description of Angkor Wat by a young and curious-minded traveler dating back from 1862. And more about Banteay Srei?

In French & English (ADB Translation)

English translation of the 1862 report on Cambodia (1862) by an independent businessman often at odds with the budding French colonial administration. E

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When the Pop-Art Superstar in-the-making was visiting and drawing Angkor in 1956.

"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."

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For the first time since 1928, a gorgeous - and highly informative - photographic work on Cambodia available here thanks to proper resolution scanning.

The mapping of Angkor Archeological Site in early modern era

The first extensive publication dedicated to Angkor in The National Geographic. By an American diplomat, with photos by two noted French photographers.

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Not a novel nor a purely journalistic work: the engaging take on Angkor and modern Cambodia around 1930 by a Chicago-based reporter and popular writer.

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An early account of Saigon, the Mekong Delta, Cambodia, Malaysia and the Philippines by the first US Navy officer who reached Cochinchina in 1819.

An elegant period novel set in Ancient Angkor by British administrator and author H. Clifford in the 1910s.

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A biographical notice of the Portuguese friar who went to Angkor in the 16th century.

In English & Portuguese

From Korea to Cambodia, Burma and Laos, a quite perceptive travelogue from the 1920s.

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

In French

Prepatory notes for Aymonier's magnus opus, Le Cambodge in three volumes. A "pre-EFEO" radiography of Cambodia.

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An exploratory description of ancient Khmer temples in the historic Khet Bati (Bati Province), visited in 1877 by an amateur archaeologist.

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A short description of Cambodia and Cochinchina at the early stage of the French Protectorate, "The Admirals' Era".

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Back to Cambodia four years after "Angkor the Magnificent", an inspired and sometime visionary travelogue through Asia in the throes of colonialism.

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