Question

The book comprises a series of accounts describing how lost cities were rediscovered by the modern world. In this extract we learn about the rediscovery of the ancient city of Angkor by__________, whose real interest lay in______________ rather than archeology, but who loved to travel. It was on a visit to____________ between 1858 and 1861 that he made his discovery in the course of exploring and collecting_________________ in Siam, Cambodia, and Laos. Though he would like to have been remembered for his contribution to our understanding of natural history, he is best known today for the three weeks when, with the help of a priest from a missionary outpost, he went in search of________ rumored to be across the Tonle Sap.

Find the missing correct words in the blank spaces

Answer 1

Henri Mouhot, botany, Southeast Asia, specimens, lost temples