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Subject: New books seen in Thailand: Siamese maps/East Timor Atlas
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:49:16 +1100
From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
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A couple of interesting titles seen on my holiday in Thailand:


>"Royal Siamese Maps:War & Trade in Nineteenth Century Thailand "
>by Santanee Phasuk & Philip Stott
>With a Foreword by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand
>published by River Books, Bangkok
>210 pages, 300 x 245 mm, hardback
>Over 300 colour illustrations
>ISBN 974 8225 94
>1,795 Baht or 70 US$/EUR
>
>
>In 1996, seventeen exquisite hand-drawn and hand-coloured cotton maps were
>discovered in the Grand Palace, Bangkok. These long-lost treasures record
>cartographically Siamese warfare and trade during the first three reigns
>of the Bangkok Period (1782-1851).
>Works of art in themselves, the maps are also full of historical and
>landscape detail so that they will become important primary sources for
>historians and geographers of Southeast Asia for years to come.
>Now preserved and safely stored in the Library of HRH Princess Maha Chakri
>Sirindhorn, it is the purpose of this beautifully illustrated book to
>introduce these exciting discoveries to the general public and to
>scholars, antiquarians and cartographic historians.
>Royal Siamese Maps is thus a lively account of the finding, the dating,
>the cartographic characteristics, and historical significance of these
>rare remnants of the Siamese heritage.
>
>Full details at
>http://www.riverbooksbk.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=87
>
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>A new(ish) atlas of East Timor:
>
>"Timor Lorosa'e, Pays au carrefour de l'Asie et du Pacifique, un atlas
>géo-historique",
>by Frederic Durand
>published by Presses universitaires de Marne-la-Vallée-IRASEC (Institut de
>Recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine), Marne-la-Vallée/Bangkok,
>2002, 208 pp.
>Isbn 2-914550-01-4
>paperback
>
>
>1450 baht (US$36) in the bookshop of the National Museum in Bangkok.

Dr Brendan Whyte
Assistant Map Curator
ERC Library
University of Melbourne
Vic 3010
AUSTRALIA
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