Titre et auteur:

The architecture of South-East Asia through travellers' eyes / [edited by] Roxana Waterson ; with a foreword by Victor T. King.

Publication:

Kuala Lumpur ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Description:

xxiii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Série(s):

Oxford in Asia paperbacks

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Victor T. King -- Introduction / Roxana Waterson -- Ruins. 1. Exploring the Ruins of Angkor / Pierre Loti. 2. A Visit to Angkor Thom and the Bayon / Malcolm MacDonald. 3. 'Pagan as It is Today' / V.C. Scott O'Connor. 4. The Antiquities of Borobudur and Dieng / Thomas Stamford Raffles. 5. 'Boro Boedor' / E.R. Scidmore. 6. Looking for the Ruins of Majapahit / Harriet Ponder -- Cities and Towns. 7. Floating Houses in Bangkok / John Thomson. 8. Walks in Phnom Penh and Saigon (1871-2) / Frank Vincent. 9. Impressions of Luang Prabang in the 1860s / Louis de Carne. 10. The Straits Settlements at the Turn of the Century / Frank Athelstane Swettenham. 11. Kuala Lumpur at the Turn of the Century / Ng Seo Buck. 12. Singapore in the 1860s / John Cameron. 13. The Dutch Lifestyle in Batavia in the 1790s / John Barrow. 14. Makassar in the 1850s / Alfred Russell Wallace. 15. Life in Early Nineteenth Century Manila / Paul Proust de la Gironiere -- Palaces. 16. The Palace of Mandalay / V.C. Scott O'Connor. 17. 'A Description of the Palace of the King of Siam' / Guy Tachard. 18. An Audience with the Emperor of Annam at Hue in 1875 / Brossard de Corbigny. 19. The Harem of the Sultan of Brunei in the 1860s / Spenser St. John. 20. 'Visitors' Day at the Palace, Djocjakarta' / Jan Poortenaar. 21. A Meeting with the Raja of Goa, Celebes / Alfred Russell Wallace. 22. A Stay with the Raja of Magindanao in August 1775 / Thomas Forrest -- Temples. 23. On Burmese Pagodas / R. Talbot Kelly. 24. Bangkok and Its Temples / Geoffrey Gorer. 25. The Temples of Bali / Miguel Covarrubias -- Villages. 26. Meegyoungyai and Nyaung-U, on the Banks of the Irrawaddy / R. Talbot Kelly. 27. Choquan, a Vietnamese Village / John Thomson. 28. East Coast Malay Fishing Villages in the Monsoon Season / Hugh Clifford. 29. Villages of the Melanau, Kanowit, and Bidayuh of Sarawak / Spenser St. John. 30. The Village of a Chief / Violet Clifton. 31. Villages and Megaliths of South Nias / F.M. Schnitger. 32. Villages in Lampung, South Sumatra / Henry O. Forbes. 33. 'Life in a Dessa' / Harriet Ponder -- Domestic Architecture. 34. A Lao House at Kiang Hai in 1881 / Carl Bock. 35. 'A Laos Cabin' / Jonathan Wilson. 36. Lunch at the Headman's House in Naning / J.R. Logan. 37. Malay Houses in Perak in the 1870s / J.F.A. McNair. 38. Some Habitations of the Orang Asli of the Malay Peninsula / Walter William Skeat and Charles Otto Blagden. 39. The Ritual Selection of a House Site among the Malays / Walter William Skeat. 40. The Furnishings of a Malay House / Richard O. Winstedt. 41. The Pangah or 'Head-house' of the Land Dayak / Hugh Low. 42. The Construction of a Sarawak Longhouse / Charles Hose. 43. Houses of Sumatra in the 1770s / William Marsden. 44. The Houses of the Minangkabau / Thomas Stamford Raffles. 45. The Houses of the Acehnese / C. Snouck Hurgronje. 46. A Balinese House / Miguel Covarrubias. 47. A New Guinea Longhouse at Dore in 1775 / Thomas Forrest. 48. A Tanimbar House / Henry O. Forbes. 49. Houses of the Ifugao, Bontoc, and Kalinga of Luzon / Cornelis de Witt Willcox -- Colonial Residences. 50. A 'Fairy-tale Chateau' at Taiping / Brau de Saint-Pol Lias. 51. My Boarding House in Cavenagh Road / George L. Peet. 52. The Colonial Houses of Batavia / Augusta de Wit.

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ISBN:

9835600333 (paperback)
9789835600333 (paperback)

Sujet:

Architecture Southeast Asia.
Architecture Asie du Sud-Est.
Architecture
Architektur
Geschichte
Bouwkunst.
Reisbeschrijvingen.
Architecture Asie du Sud-Est Descriptions et voyages.
Southeast Asia
Südostasien
Asie du Sud-Est Civilisation Descriptions et voyages.
Architecture Asia, Southeastern

Vedettes secondaires:

Waterson, Roxana, editor.
King, Victor T., writer of foreword.
Oxford in Asia paperbacks.

Architecture of Southeast Asia through travellers' eyes

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 219484
Cote: NA1511 .A7 1998
Statut: Disponible