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The Diary of Kosa Pan

Thai Ambassador to France, June-July 1686

Visudh Busayakul translator Michael Smithies editor Dirk van Van der Cruysse editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP

Published:1st Mar '02

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The Diary of Kosa Pan cover

This account of Kosa Pan’s journal describes in great detail the arrival in Brest in 1686 of the first full Siamese embassy to reach France. This fragment is apparently all that survives of a massive report of the activities of the embassy written for King Narai. It was discovered in Paris in the early 1980s, was published in Thai in 1984, and appears here in English for the first time.

ISBN: 9789747551587

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 136g

108 pages