Views of Seventeenth-century Vietnam: Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina & Samuel Baron on TonkinOlga Dror, Keith Weller Taylor 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. |
Contents
Maps | 9 |
Introduction | 15 |
A Collection of Voyages and Travels Vol II | 85 |
CONTENTS | 89 |
An Account of CochinChina the First Part of the Temporal State | 91 |
An Account of CochinChina the Second Part Treating of the | 137 |
A Collection of Voyages and Travels Vol VI | 187 |
Tavernieres Account of Tonqueen Animadverted On | 195 |
Of the Marriages of the Tonqueenese | 218 |
Of the Learned Men of Tonqueen | 228 |
Of the Original Government Law and Policy of the Tonqueenese | 236 |
Of the General of Tonqueen His Family Officers and Court | 248 |
That There is No Such Manner of Coronation and Inthronization | 256 |
SECOND VOLUME | 259 |
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The first kept by seven sailors in the isle | |
Of the Nature and Productions of the Kingdom of Tonqueen | 205 |
Of the Strength of the Kingdom of Tonqueen | 212 |
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