-------- Original Message -------- 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]> To: [log in to unmask] ------------------ 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 > > >************************* >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 [log in to unmask]