Adventures and Encounters: Europeans in South-East Asia

by J.M. Gullick

South-East Asia has always confronted visitors with exotic cultures, strange lands, and proud monarchies. This anthology offers selections from the whole range of European writing--from accounts by sixteenth-century Portuguese and Spanish spice traders to those by nineteenth-century explorers, naturalists, and literary travellers. The writings express the fascination, the excitement, and sometimes the danger of personal adventures and encounters in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9676530905
• ISBN13: 9789676530905
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.7"