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Paperback A Description of the Kingdom of Siam 1690 Book

ISBN: 1480191302

ISBN13: 9781480191303

A Description of the Kingdom of Siam 1690

In September 1689, Hubertus Kaempfer reached Batavia [nowadays referred to as Jakarta]; spent the following winter studying Javanese natural history, and in May 1690 set out for Japan as physician to the Dutch East India Company's trading-post in Nagasaki. En route to Japan, the ship in which he sailed touched at Siam [known since 1932 as Thailand], whose capital at the time was Ayutthaya. Here he recorded his meeting with the Siamese Minister and...

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