This was an extremely interesting book. It was particularly interesting because I was in Cambodia while I read it and it helped to explain so many of the things that I saw. The book get a little difficult to read at some points and a tad repetitive but there is nothing of its kind on the subjec...
Since the beginning of human habitation of this bucolic state, people have built their homes from tree trunks, limbs, and branches—even making use of the leaves. They’ve taken food from the fruit trees, burned tree limbs to cook their food, lived in the shade of trees as protection from the bruta...