Siam : The Land of the White Elephant as It Was and Is (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Victorian Travelogue of Bangkok, Buddhist Traditions, and Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century SiamBy George B. Bacon
Length7h 21m
About this audiobook
Siam: The Land of the White Elephant as It Was and Is presents a richly descriptive nineteenth-century account of Thailand, then known to Western readers as Siam. Blending travel narrative, ethnography, geography, history, and missionary-era observation, the book surveys Bangkok, the monarchy, religion, customs, commerce, landscape, and everyday life. Its prose reflects the Victorian appetite for instructive travel literature: orderly, curious, occasionally picturesque, and shaped by the era's comparative view of Asian societies. George B. Bacon, an American writer, editor, and clergyman, belonged to a milieu deeply invested in education, Protestant inquiry, and the expansion of Western knowledge about the wider world. His treatment of Siam suggests the concerns of a learned compiler and interpreter, drawing together reports, historical materials, and contemporary impressions for readers seeking both information and moral-cultural understanding. The book's perspective is inevitably marked by its period, yet it remains valuable as a record of how Siam was represented to Anglophone audiences. This volume is recommended to readers interested in Southeast Asian history, colonial-era travel writing, and the intellectual habits of nineteenth-century scholarship. Read critically, it offers insight not only into Siam's past, but also into the Western imagination that sought to describe it.
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Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length7 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 1, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Siam : The Land of the White Elephant as It Was and Is (Annotated)
22CHAPTER XI.
2CHAPTER I.
23FROM BANGKOK TO CHANTABOUN—A MISSIONARY JOURNEY IN 1835
3EARLY INTERCOURSE WITH SIAM—RELATIONS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES
24CHAPTER XII.
4CHAPTER II.
25CHANTABOUN AND THE GULF.
5GEOGRAPHY OF SIAM
26CHAPTER XIII.
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6CHAPTER III.
27MOUHOT IN THE HILL-COUNTRY OF CHANTABOUN.
7OLD SIAM—ITS HISTORY
28CHAPTER XIV.
8CHAPTER IV.
29PECHABURI OR P'RIPP'REE
9THE STORIES OF TWO ADVENTURERS
30CHAPTER XV.
10CHAPTER V.
31THE TRIBES OF NORTHERN SIAM
11MODERN SIAM
32CHAPTER XVI.
12CHAPTER VI.
33SIAMESE LIFE AND CUSTOMS
13FIRST IMPRESSIONS
34CHAPTER XVII.
14CHAPTER VII.
35NATURAL PRODUCTIONS OF SIAM
15A ROYAL GENTLEMAN
36CHAPTER XVIII.
16CHAPTER VIII.
37CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN SIAM—THE OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE
17PHRABAT SOMDETCH PHRA PARAMENDR MAHA MONGKUT
38CHAPTER XIX.
18CHAPTER IX.
39BANGKOK AND THE NEW SIAM
19AYUTHIA
40THE END.
20CHAPTER X.
41Memorable Quotes
21PHRABAT AND PATAWI
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