A visitor to Angkor Wat rests by one of the so-called library structures in the temple complex/Basil Childers for The New York Times
JUST after Christmas in 1859, the French explorer Henri Mouhot left Bangkok to explore the uncharted regions of Indochina.
It took him a year of hacking through brush and fending off leopards, leeches and wild elephants before he arrived at Angkor Wat, the jungle-smothered complex of temples deep inside the kingdom of Cambodia.
Less than two years later, he died of malaria.
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