The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre

Released on by Peter Borschberg
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  • The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre Book Detail

  • Author : Peter Borschberg
  • Release Date : 2013-11-01
  • Publisher : NUS Press
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 485
  • ISBN 13 : 9971697831
  • File Size : 55,55 MB
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The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre by Peter Borschberg PDF Summary

Book Description: Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the turn of the 17th century. He left history a substantial autobiography written in Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid. Written in the form of a picaresque tale, with an acute eye for the cultures he encountered, the memoirs tell the story of his adventures in the trading centres of the day: Melaka, Ayutthaya, Cambodia, Patani, Pahang, Johor, Brunei and Manila. Narrowly escaping death several times, De Coutre was inevitably drawn into dangerous intrigues between the representatives of European power, myriad fortune hunters and schemers, and the rulers and courtiers in the palaces of Pahang, Patani, Siam and Johor.

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