Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam: Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin (Studies on Southeast Asia)

Olga Dror And K.w. Taylor, Editors And Annotators. Includes The Text Of Two Works Originally Appearing In V. 2 And V. 6 Of A Collection Of Voyages And Travels (1732): An Account Of Cochin-china / By Christopher Borri; And, A Description Of The Kingdom Of Tonqueen / By S. Baron. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [283]-290). Borri's Work Translated From The Italian. 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.