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"The tangled vines of Thai politics" (Bangkok Post
The Ambiguous Allure of the West brings studies of modern Thai history and culture into dialogue with debates in comparative intellectual history
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Introduction
Siamese Embassy Lost in Africa, 1686, A: The Odyssey of Ok-Khun Chamnan The Middle East "The tangled vines of ThaiThis long forgotten tale of the shipwreck off the coasts of Africa of a Siamese embassy to Lisbon in 1686 lay buried in the text of a French book printed three hundred years ago. The author of the text was the intrepid and intriguing Jesuit Tachard, who published accounts of his first two journeys to Siam. In his second book, written when he was King Narai's personal envoy to Louis XIV and Pope Innocent XI, Tachard relates the account of the shipwreck