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Jack Parsons & Joanna Hurley, In the Buddha's Light: The Temples of Luang Prabang
Jack Parsons & Joanna Hurley, In the Buddha's Light: The Temples of Luang Prabang

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Jack Parsons & Joanna Hurley, In the Buddha's Light: The Temples of Luang Prabang

Award-winning photographer Jack Parsons and local publisher Joanna Hurley join forces to create this stunning journey to Luang Prabang, a World Heritage site in Southeast Asia.

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May 20, 2021, 6:00 PM MDT

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This engaging memoir, illustrated with 75 color images, takes the reader on a journey into the heart of one of Southeast Asia’s most beautiful and enchanting small cities. Lush, exotic––and full of contradictions––Luang Prabang sits at the confluence of the Mekong and Nam Khan Rivers in Laos. Formerly the capital of the ancient royal kingdom of Lane Xang, “home of 1000 elephants,” it is now a World Heritage site that hosts nearly half a million visitors a year. It is also home to more than 35 Buddhist temples, and the center of spiritual life in a communist country that is the most-bombed place in history courtesy of the U.S. military during the Vietnam War.

About the Photographer

Photographer Jack Parsons has spent almost forty years investigating the light, landscapes…

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