Angkor and Cambodia in the Sixteenth Century According to Portuguese and Spanish Sources

Groslier's seminal study of the accounts of early Spanish and Portuguese missionaries and adventurers in Cambodia was published in French in 1958, and is translated here into English for the first time. The reports of the Europeans record the earliest surviving firsthand accounts of Angkor, following the 'rediscovery' of the site by the Khmers, over a hundred years after its abandonment in 1432 CE, and four hundred years prior to the colonization of Cambodia by the French.Smithies, Michael is the author of 'Angkor and Cambodia in the Sixteenth Century According to Portuguese and Spanish Sources', published 2006 under ISBN 9789745240537 and ISBN 9745240532.