Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam
Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin
Published on 15. December 2006
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-0-87727-771-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume introduces two of the earliest writings about Vietnam to appear in the English language. The reports come from narrators with different interests who are viewing different parts of Vietnam at an early stage of European involvement in the region.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Publishing group
Cornell University Press
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
4 maps, 13 line drawings - 17 Maps
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87727-771-2 (9780877277712)
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Persons
Keith W. Taylor is Professor of Vietnamese Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of A History of the Vietnamese.