The diary of Kosa Pan (Ok-phra Wisut Sunthon)
Subtitle: Thai Ambassador to France, June-July 1686
By: introduction and annotation, Dirk van der Cruysse ; translation of the diary, Visudh Busyakul ; editing of the text, translation of the introduction and footnotes, Michael Smithies
Contributors: Cruysse, Dirk van der; Smithies, Michael, 1932-
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chiang Mai, Thailand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Kōsāthibō̜dī -- Čhaophrayā, -- d. ca. 1695 -- Diaries; Ambassadors -- Thailand -- Diaries; Government missions -- Thailand -- Early works to 1800; Government missions -- France -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Diaries; Early works to 1800
Description: "This account from Kosa Pan's journal describes in great detail the arrival in Brest in 1686 of the first full Siamese embassy to reach France. The author is the first ambassador of that embassy, also known as the rachatbut Ok-phra Wisut Sunthon, who became phra khlang in 1688 under King Phetracha after the death of King Narai. This fragment is apparently all that survives of a massive report of the activities of the embassy written for King Narai.

It was accidentally discovered in Paris in the early 1980s, was published in Thai in 1984, and appears here in English for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Parallel title in Thai

Translated from the Thai