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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $77, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSEA225)		  
Eyewitness Guide Vietnam and Angkor Wat  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 312 PAGES
Featuring innovative site diagrams, local maps and hundreds of color photographs, this handy companion introduces the culture, history and attractions of Vietnam. With a chapter on Angkor. (VNM102, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Vietnam and Angkor Wat
Understanding Vietnam  •  Neil Jamieson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1995 •  PAPER  • 428 PAGES
Jamieson's ambitious primer addresses politics, social history, village life, structural renewal, literature and the arts, illuminating the Vietnamese worldview with insight and depth. It does just what the title promises -- it illuminates the Vietnamese and their worldview. (VNM01, $27.95)		   Understanding Vietnam
The River's Tale, A Year on the Mekong  •  Edward Gargan
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES
A personal, probing chronicle of a 3,000 mile journey on the river from its source in China through Tibet, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia to the Mekong delta in Vietnam. Gargan, a veteran correspondent and bureau chief for the New York Times, spent a year traveling the river. (SEA33, $15.95)		   The River's Tale, A Year on the Mekong
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia Map  •  Nelles
2010 •  MAP
A convenient, double-sided map of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam at a scale of 1:1,500,000, with city maps of Hanoi, Vientiane, Ho Chi Minh City, Luang Prabang, and Phnom Penh. Includes the eastern portion of Thailand and Bangkok. (SEA75, $13.95)		   Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia Map



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Odyssey Guide Angkor  •  Dawn Rooney   • GUIDEBOOK  •  The sixth edition of Rooney's indispensable guide to Khmer culture and history. Includes monuments, temple plans, color photographs and practical information about Siem Reap. (CBD05, $27.95)
 		  
A History of Cambodia  •  David Chandler   • HISTORY  •  An excellent, scholarly history from early civilization through the rise of Angkor, French colonial period, Vietnamization of Cambodia, Khmer Rouge and Coup de Force of 1997. (CBD27, $38.00)
 		  
A Traveller's History of Southeast Asia  •  J.M. Barwise  •  Nicholas J. White   • HISTORY • COMING IN JUNE  •  A compact history of the region, including the Khmer and the various ancient kingdoms that produced Borobudur, Angkor and other architectural marvels. (SEA36, $14.95)
 		  
Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge, Inside the Politics of Nation Building  •  Evan R. Gottesman   • HISTORY  •  Gottesman, deputy director of the ABA Cambodia Law and Democracy Project in the 1990s, traces the far-ranging impact of the Khmer regime from its ouster in 1979 to the signing of the peace accord in 1991. (CBD55, $26.00)
 		  
Shadows and Wind  •  Robert Templer   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A British journalist based in Vietnam, Templer cuts through myth and legend to offer a lively, opinionated portrait of contemporary Vietnam. (VNM43, $17.00)
 		  
The Civilization of Angkor  •  Charles Higham   • HISTORY • COMING IN  •  A concise history of the origins, development and rise of the kingdom of Angkor by a leading archaeologist. It's an up-to-date, accessible overview of the civilization from prehistory through the fall of Angkor in 1431. (CBD26, $24.95)
 		  
The Mekong, Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future  •  Milton Osborne   • HISTORY  •  A cultural history of the great river from prehistory to European exploration, colonial tensions and modern challenges. It's an engaging introduction to the history of Southeast Asia. (SEA28, $16.00)
 		  
Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit  •  Nguyen Van Huy  •  Laurel Kendall   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A marvelously illustrated portrait of culture and society in contemporary Vietnam, featuring informed essays by diverse contributors with accompanying color photographs. (VNM66, $50.00)
 		  
Art & Architecture of Cambodia  •  Helen Ibbitson Jessup   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Jessup includes not just Angkor Wat and Banteay Srei but also lesser-known recent discoveries in the surrounding jungle in this illustrated overview in the World of Art series. (CBD41, $16.95)
 		  
A Dragon Apparent, Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam  •  Norman Lewis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  A classic account of travels and adventure during the last years of French Indochina, strong on atmosphere and including wonderfully detailed descriptions of local cultures and archaeological treasures. First published in 1951. (SEA40, $33.95)
 		  
Descending the Dragon, My Journey Down the Coast of Vietnam  •  Rob Howard  •  Jon Bowermaster   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Bowermaster and a team, including his long suffering foreign press monitor and photographers, set forth from Hanoi by kayak to explore the long coast of Vietnam on a two-month-long journey of discovery. With dozens of color and black-and-white photographs. (VNM121, $21.95)
 		  
First They Killed My Father, A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers  •  Loung Ung   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An eye-opening eyewitness account of the atrocities suffered by millions of Cambodians from the perspective of a young girl who survived the reign of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. (CBD13, $14.99)
 		  
The Gods Drink Whiskey  •  Stephen T. Asma   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Asma writes with verve and wit in this eye-opening account of his yearlong stint teaching at the Buddhist Institute in Phnom Penh. His account is both an overview of Theravada Buddhism and a down-to-earth portrait of contemporary Cambodia. (CBD46, $14.99)
 		  
The Sacred Willow, Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family  •  Duong Van Mai Elliott   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  This vivid family saga, beginning with the author's great-grandfather, captures the life and momentous history of Vietnam over the last 100 years. (VNM39, $24.99)
 		  
The Quiet American  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE • FAVORITE  •  A classic, this is the most famous Western work of fiction on Vietnam. Greene writes of a love triangle between a war correspondent, his Vietnamese consort and an optimistic young American during the last days of French rule. (VNM08, $16.00)
 		  
Vietnam, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  John Balaban  •  Nguyen Qui Duc   • ANTHOLOGY  •  From rain forest and rural countryside to the cities, these 17 stories from Vietnam's finest writers explore Vietnam's landscapes, myths and changing traditions. (VNM04, $14.95)
 		  
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia  •  Morten Strange   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact photographic guide to almost 700 species of birds in the region, featuring concise descriptions and distribution maps. (SEA39, $38.95)
 		  
 
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