The Land of the White Elephant: Sights and scenes in South-Eastern Asia, a personal narrative of travel and adventure in farther India, embracing the

by Frank Vincent

Book Overview

From the content, arriving in Angkor: WE, whose good fortune it is to live in the nineteenth century, are accustomed to boast of the perfection and pre-eminence of our modern civilisation, of the grandeur of our attainments in Science, Art, Literature, and what not, as compared with those whom we call ancients; but still we are compelled to admit that they have far excelled our recent endeavours in many things, and notably in the Fine Arts of painting,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3946679269
• ISBN13: 9783946679264
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Guran
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"