If one is going to be dragged into the Cambodian jungle, the ignorant western reader needs some help with the many villages mentioned

SIMON WARRACK has led an active life. Interested from his schooldays in putting his hands to as much use as his brain, he went from art history at university to learn the craft of a stonemason. Training on Canterbury Cathedral and in London, he transitioned seamlessly into a series of assignments which took him in a dizzying sequence from Venice to Rome, Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Axum and Lalibela in Ethiopia, to Umm Al Nar on the south side of the Gulf of Hormuz, and Great Zimbabwe. These are his major projects. Casual references to Persepolis or Kosovo perhaps suggest other assignments he could have chosen. After the conservation of a Roman fountain, Warrack moved into helping to manage major conservation projects, and working for international organisations like the World Monuments Fund.

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