Siam
by George B. Bacon
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bacon, George B. (George Blagden), 1836-1876
- Title
- Siam : The Land of the White Elephant as It Was and Is
- Credits
- Produced by Hunter Monroe, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
- Subject
- Thailand -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 38078
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38078
- Release Date
- November 25, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY OF TRAVEL — SIAM
- 2.AS IT WAS AND IS
- 3.GEORGE B. BACON — FREDERICK WELLS WILLIAMS — NEW YORK — CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS — 1893 — REVISER'S NOTE — CONTENTS — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — SIAM
- 4.CHAPTER I. — EARLY INTERCOURSE WITH SIAM—RELATIONS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES
- 5.CHAPTER II. — GEOGRAPHY OF SIAM
- 6.CHAPTER III. — OLD SIAM—ITS HISTORY
- 7.CHAPTER IV. — THE STORIES OF TWO ADVENTURERS
- 8.CHAPTER V. — MODERN SIAM
- 9.CHAPTER VI. — FIRST IMPRESSIONS
- 10.CHAPTER VII. — A ROYAL GENTLEMAN
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. — PHRABAT SOMDETCH PHRA PARAMENDR MAHA MONGKUT
- 12.CHAPTER IX. — AYUTHIA
- 13.CHAPTER X. — PHRABAT AND PATAWI
- 14.CHAPTER XI. — FROM BANGKOK TO CHANTABOUN—A MISSIONARY JOURNEY IN 1835
- 15.CHAPTER XII. — CHANTABOUN AND THE GULF.
- 16.CHAPTER XIII. — MOUHOT IN THE HILL-COUNTRY OF CHANTABOUN.
- 17.CHAPTER XIV. — PECHABURI OR P'RIPP'REE
- 18.CHAPTER XV. — THE TRIBES OF NORTHERN SIAM
- 19.CHAPTER XVI. — SIAMESE LIFE AND CUSTOMS
- 20.CHAPTER XVII. — NATURAL PRODUCTIONS OF SIAM
- 21.CHAPTER XVIII. — CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN SIAM—THE OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE
- 22.CHAPTER XIX. — BANGKOK AND THE NEW SIAM — THE END.
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