Sanctuary: The Temples of Angkor

by Steve McCurry

Book Overview

Magnum photographer Steve McCurry (b.1950) has beautifully and evocatively photographed the temples of Angkor in Cambodia, among the world's most impressive monuments. Over 100 of his images of the site are collected in this stunning book, which documents a magical world of carved gods, weathered masonry, tangled vegetation and orange-robed monks. Angkor was the capital of the Khmer rulers from the end of the ninth century until the mid-fifteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714841757
• ISBN13: 9780714841755
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary