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The Lost Temple of Java
by
Phil Grabsky
Uncover the many mysteries of the long-missing "eighth wonder of the world." Built by a now-forgotten civilization that flourished even as Europe languished in the Dark Ages, Borobudur in Central Java is the world's largest Buddhist temple, erected out of 1.6 million blocks of worked volcanic stone and containing three miles of relief carvings and 504 statues of Buddha. Ye
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Paperback, 144 pages
Published
December 31st 2000
by Phoenix Illustrated
(first published November 12th 2000)
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Phil Grabsky is not a scholar; his day job is in television. That shows, which is not entirely a bad thing. This is an unusual project for someone who writes mostly about the well-trodden world of Rome. "The Lost Temple of Java" recounts the little that is known about medieval Indonesia's grand Buddhist temple Borobudur, lost in the jungle until Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles, the British Lieutetant-Governor, unusually middle-class and curious for the British Foreign Service, decided to investigate
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Yup - I want to visit.
Putting this location on my list of possible trips in the next few years.
Putting this location on my list of possible trips in the next few years.
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