This volume presents critical editions of two previously unpublished missionary accounts of Ayutthaya and the East Indies scene after the "National" Revolution of 1688 in Thailand: <i>Relation de Voyage aux Indes</i>, 1690-99, by Guy Tachard, a French Jesuit; and <i>Relatione Distinta delli Regni di Siam, China, Tunchino e Cocincina</i> (ca. 1707), by Nicola Cima, an Italian Augustinian. These interesting, substantial texts tell us a lot both about the Europeans who were writing them, and about Southeast Asia in a period when information was in much shorter supply than prior to 1688.
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements and Aids to Research
- Brief Chronology of the Lives and Movements of Guy Tachard and Nicola Agustin Cima
- Introduction
- PART ONE: Presentation of Guy Tachard s.j.,
Relation de Voyage aux Indes (1690–99)
- The Relation de Voyage aux Indes (1690–99)
- Guy Tachard, A Travel Account to the Indies (Relation de Voyage aux Indes) 1690–99
- PART TWO: Presentation of Nicola Cima, o.e.s.a.
Relatione Distinta delli Regni di Siam,
China, Tunchino, e Cocincina (ca. 1707)
- The Relatione Distinta delli Regni
di Siam, China, Tunchino, e Cocincina
- A Distinct Report on the Kingdoms of Siam, China, Tonkin, and Cochinchina on the Part of Father Nicola Agostin Cima of the Order of Augustinians
- Bibliography
- Index
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