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The present volume provides an edited and corrected transcription the original Tibetan textual au...

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The artist Sappho Marchal was the daughter of the renowned French conservator of Angkor, Henri Ma...

In 1991 a brutal civil war broke out in Sierra Leone, a small country on the west coast of Africa...

A British fugitive escaping his own demons finds unfinished business in UNTAC-era Cambodia. An an...

'Move quietly, hit hard'-a lesson learned as a child vagrant under a bridge in Ha Noi, and one th...

Written to meet the need of students and teachers of the Thai language for information on the mor...

The Shu Hua Shuo Ling-a treatise on painting and forgery-was written in the eighteenth century by...

A century and a half ago Tibetan mastiffs were first imported into England, and only three decade...

The legendary botanist and explorer records the details of his last expedition, in 1953, to his b...

The Khmers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries are best remembered by the magnificent monumen...

The year is 1917. The self-acclaimed Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, died the previous year and Su...

A systematic study of the Tibetan charms and amulets, mantras and cakras that have afforded their...

This book, a revised edition of one of this renowned scholar's primary early works, describes the...

Seventy years and at least three generations have passed since the abomination of the Holocaust w...

Twenty five years after he left Vietnam and his Montagnard tribesmen, Australian Barry Petersen w...

The subject of this study is a small collection of songs known as Caryagiti, 'songs of the mystic...

Burma's Icy Mountains describes two expeditions to Burma-one on his own and a second, with a larg...

Written by a renowned scholar of Burmese culture, politics and language, this is the first Englis...

In order to master the Thai language, one must become adept at reading Thai. Students who rely on...

The corrupt and despotic rule of Antonio Floresco, longtime dictator of the Carolines, seems fina...

Classical Tibetan, with origins dating to the ninth century, is the script found in a huge corpus...

Himalayan Pilgrimage describes a seven months' journey which the author made through the remote T...

The lute, ch'in or guqin is one of China's oldest and most revered musical instruments. Records i...

The Gentleman in the Parlour is Maugham's tale of travel through Burma, Indochina and Siam in the...

This account of plant-hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon-Ward's 1933 expedition to the southeaster...

On an isolated Himalayan hillside in northwest Nepal, the village that was the subject of this gr...

A detailed first-hand account-and critical analysis-of the impact of the first contingent of Amer...

Essays on the origins of ink, paper and printing in Asia, tracing the early development of these ...

Lao is the native language of the southeast Asian country of Laos, and is also spoken by much of ...

First published almost a century ago, Malay Poisons and Charm Cures remains a classic and still d...

Forty Delicious Years is the story of Bali's most enduring culinary landmark - Murni's Warung in ...

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was one of the most loved and respected poetic voices in modern ...

We have all heard stories about these sorts of people-those who leave the comfort and security of...

The year is 1914. A distinguished couple had arrived overland two years previously from Europe vi...

This study comprises an in-depth examination of the anthropology of caste as observed in the Newa...

The Peacock's Children records the struggle for independence, democracy and freedom in Burma from...

A new edition of a classic on Malay weaponry and war, originally published in 1936 in an extremel...

India is home to one of the richest and most diverse populations of wildlife of any territory on ...

The great Song Dynasty poet and artist, Mi Fu (1051-1107), entered official life as secretary of ...

A comprehensive survey of Indian Buddhism and its subsequent establishment in Tibet, where it was...

Since China and the West first came into contact centuries ago, descriptions of Chinese women of ...

Bertil and Hseng Noung Lintner, and their baby daughter, born enroute, spent one and a half years...

This thought provoking study of the development of architecture, and the impact of architectural ...

With its dramatic vistas, its attractive, hospitable people and its rich cultural traditions, the...