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Bangkok.: White Lotus.. 1997.. Map, colour and black and white plates and text illustrations, xii + 156pp. Small publisher's chop on front free endpaper. A very good clean paperback copy on semi-gloss paper. "Travels in Upper Laos and Siam is the report of an exploration undertaken in Upper Laos and the border areas between British Burma, China, Vietnam and Siam in 1882 by Doctor Neis under the auspices of the French Minister of Public Education. Searching for knowledge about the local tribes and a commercially viable trade route from the Mekong Valley to Annam or Tonkin, present day Vietnam, Doctor Neis met the Puan people fleeing from armed Chinese Haw bandits who had destroyed the Puan kingdom and threatened to invade large parts of the valleys that are the Laotian tributaries to the Mekong. Doctor Neis found himself in dire straits, fleeing in his turn from the approaching Haw and eventually returning to Luang Prabang. He explored the Nam Ou Valley in Central Laos and described the local…
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Travels in Upper Laos and Siam, With an Account of the Chinese Haw Invasion and Puan Resistance Paperback - 1997
by P. Neis
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- Title Travels in Upper Laos and Siam, With an Account of the Chinese Haw Invasion and Puan Resistance
- Author P. Neis
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint of 1884.
- Publisher White Lotus Co Ltd, Bangkok
- Date 1997
- ISBN 9789748496894
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White Lotus Press. 1997. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 157 p. Includes: illustrations, maps.
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