Angkor - Limited Edition by Peter YungThe Khmers in Ancient Chinese Annals
Henri Mouhot, the French naturalist who rediscovered Angkor Wat, described the grandeur of the site in 1860: 'a rival to the temple of Solomon, and erected by some ancient Michelangelo... It is grander than anything left to us by Greece or Rome'.
Angkor Wat stands as the world's largest religious building, yet it is one of the of three hundred temples in Angkor, an area of forty square kilometres. Lunet de Lajonquière, a French military man, listed a total of 910 large and small monuments at the start of the 1900s. One can not help but agree with Chinese scholars who call the ruins at Angkor 'a treasure of ancient human civilization, and a world-class cultural heritage site'.
Distinguished photographer and film director Peter Yung was born in 1949 in Hong Kong. He was educated at the Los Angeles College of Design, and studied under Hollywood cinematographer and two-time Oscar winner, James Wong Howe. Peter Yung looks at Angkor from the viewpoint of the Chinese Annals and combines this with his highly individual and atmospheric black and white photographs printed on high quality acid-free paper.
Casebound in slipcase
Limited edition
Large Format
164 pages
99 B&W illustrations
ISBN 0195920090 For delivery in Thailand please go to
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