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Voyage up the Irrawaddy
 Journal of a Voyage up the Irrawaddy to Mandalay and Bhamo. A little known volume containing an official report on a visit up the Irrawaddy river to Mandalay and Bhamo a decade before that last part of Burma was incorporated in the British empire, and its king exiled to India. Illustrated with contemporary watercolours not in the original edition. |
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Rough Trip to Rangoon by Colesworthy Grant
Rough Pencillings of a Rough Trip to Rangoon in 1846 was written by the well known Anglo-Indian artist and draftsman Colesworthy Grant who made his first visit to Burma in 1846, and this report with his pencil drawings has long been completely unavailable. Less than a decade later, he accompanied the large Phayre mission to Burma and made numerous illustrations for that mission's report, but the present work is among the first with illustrations of Rangoon when it was still a small trading post. |
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Note on a Tour in Burma by F.O. Oertel
A Tour of Burma is an almost forgotten report on Burma and contains a detailed survey of historical sites, and includes photographs not previously reproduced. A rare work not found in most bibliographies on Burma. |
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Three Military Accounts of the 1688 Revolution in Siam
Three Military Accounts of the 1688 Revolution in Siam. The coup d'état of 18 May 1688 in the Siamese Versailles at Lopburi led to the establishment of the last Ayutthayan dynasty, known to history as that of Ban Phlu Luang. But it was not just another internal palace coup in face of the imminent death of the reigning monarch, Narai. For the king's favourite, Phaulkon, known to his contemporaries as 'the little Greek', had been instrumental in bringing a French expeditionary force into the country in October the previous year, which had secret orders to seize Bangkok, 'the key of the kingdom', and Mergui, its chief port on the Andaman Sea. |
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Two Yankee Diplomats in 1830s Siam by Roberts and Ruschenberger
Two Yankee Diplomats in 1830s Siam. The first American diplomatic mission to Siam was led by Edmund Roberts in 1833; he attempted to secure better terms than the British Burney mission of 1826 had obtained, but the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between His Majesty the Magnificent King of Siam, and the United Stated of America which he concluded was much the same, reducing the numerous arbitrary charges on trade to a single tax. However, key demands, like establishing an American consul in Bangkok and trading in rice were rejected, and trade only increased slightly between the two countries after the signing of the treaty. |
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Siam, Land of the White Elephant compiled by George B. Bacon 1893
Siam, Land of the White Elephant: As it was and is. This is a compilation of descriptions of Siam from the end of the last century. It contains excerpts and summaries of some well-known and some practically unknown published and unpublished reports by travellers largely sympathetic to Siam and the Siamese. An enjoyable and well edited volume, with accompanying engravings. |
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A Diplomat in Siam by Ernest Satow C.M.G.
A Diplomat in Siam. Ernest Satow, British Minister-Resident, Bangkok, spent three months in 1885-86 travelling to and from Chiangmai, northern Thailand. Although his official purpose was to iron out legal disputes over rights of access to the teak timber trade, between Siam and British Indian and Burmese subjects in the Chiangmai region, very little mention is made of this. Nevertheless, his observations of the country he travelled through, the fishing and farming activities, the forests and the ruined temples of the old capital of Sukhothai, make this book a worthy contribution to our knowledge of the northern part of late-19th century Siam that previously had been visited and written about by few other Europeans. The book is also studded with his thumb-nail sketches of objects and places that he found of interest. However, his loss of faith in the Siamese judicial system, plus his contraction of malaria on the journey did nothing to improve his disposition towards the Siamese people or their customs, and his comments on both are quite uncomplimentary at times. |
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Siam. An Account of the Country and the People by P.A. Thompson
Siam. An Account of the Country and the People. P. A. Thompson was a British painter and member of the Royal Academy who spoke Thai and travelled quite widely in Thailand at the very beginning of this century. His account was published in Philadelphia, and is not well known. The dates for his various journeys are not precise, and unfortunately only one colour plate is included showing one of his paintings. But the lack of pictorial material is well made up by the descriptions of his experiences during his many excursions out of Bangkok. |
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Voyage to Siam by Guy Tachard
Voyage to Siam. King Narai had since the early 1670's attempted to establish relations with France, partly as a counterweight to English and Dutch influence in and around Siam, partly as a means to facilitate his control over the burgeoning coastal trade. In 1680, the first Siamese Embassy to Versailles was shipwrecked, and a second envoy left in 1684, reaching France safely. In late 1685 the Siamese envoys returned to Ayuthia, accompanied by a well appointed French Mission led by Chevalier Alexandre de Chaumont and counting among its members the Jesuit Guy Tachard, "the boudoir Abbé" de Choisy and Father Vachet of the French Overseas Mission Society. While King Narai was interested in expanding political and commercial relations, de Chaumont single-mindedly pursued the conversion of the King to the Catholic faith, ignoring advice from Abbé de Choisy to show discretion and restraint. The mission was, not unexpectedly, a failure. Three members of the mission published their version of the events: Chaumont, Choisy and Tachard. |
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Temples and Elephants by Carl Bock 1884
Temples and Elephants. Few were the Scandinavians who ventured into unknown Asia in the last century, and even fewer took the trouble to document their travels or describe the results of their explorations. Carl Alfred Bock, a Norwegian natural scientist, was one of these intrepid travellers who published. His most famous work is 'The Head-Hunters of Borneo' published in 1881 in Dutch and English. His journey to northern Thailand and Laos had the support of H.M. King Chulalongkorn, to whom the book is dedicated. Most of the material that Bock collected--described in the book--is in London museums, but a few items, including some bronze statues, are kept in the Ethnographic Museum in Oslo. |
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