220 pages, 240 x 170 mm,
Paperback, over 350 colour illustrations
ISBN 978 974 9863 53 4

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Beyond Angkor takes the reader on a journey that follows both a geographical and, where possible, a chronological journey to the most important of these relatively unknown sites. From the south, with the earliest traces of Khmer civilization of the Phnom Da, Angkor Borei and Kampot, we move north and east to the areas of 7th and 8th century Sambor Prei Kuk to the 9th-century Kulen and Roluos region. The architecture becomes more complex as seen in the sophistication of Bakong and Preah Ko. As the 11th century progressed, the Khmer diaspora expanded with the northern boundaries of the empire extending to Wat Phu in present-day Laos, while to the west lay Preah Vihear, Phnom Rung and Phimai in Thailand, the Kbal Spean site in the Kulen region, Bakan to the north and Phnom Chisor to the south. The road then leads to the expanded scale and grandeur of 12th-century monuments at Angkor: Angkor Wat, Beng Mealea and Banteay Samre.

In a concluding chapter, Beyond Angkor gives an overview of the Buddhist monuments in the heart of the empire: Bayon, Preah Khan, Ta Prohm, with an extension to Banteay Chhmar.

Helen Ibbitson Jessup’s authoritative is augmented by Ang Choulean insights into ethnography and mythology, accompanied by John Gollings’ superlative photography.