SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Volume 2, Issue 2
Autumn 2004, ISSN 1479-8484
Early Fifteenth Century Travels in the East
Nicolò de’ Conti of Venice
Translated by John Frampton in the late sixteenth century
Account of the Journey of Hieronimo di Santo Stefano, a Genovese (1495-1496)
Hieronimo di Santo Stefano
The Itinerary of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508
Ludovico di Varthema
Translated by John Winter Jones
Brief Extract from the Travels of Athanasius Nikitin
Athanasius Nikitin of Tver
Translated by Count Wielhorsky
The Lusiad, or, Portugal's Historical Poem
Luís Vaz de Camões
Translated by Richard Fanshaw (1655)
Jesuit Letters on Pegu in the Early Seventeenth Century
Nicolas Pimenta & Others
Empire Birman-Arracan
This brief account of Arracan was originally published in the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie 5.35 & 36 (March-April) in 1826
Certaine Words of Pegu Language (1603)
This world list was included in the back matter of A True and Large Discourse of the Voyage of the Whole Fleete of Ships Set forth the 20 of Aprill 1601 by the Government and Assistants of the East Indian Marchants in London, to the East Indies, published for Thomas Thorpe by William Alpley of London in 1603.
Announcement: Euan Bagshawe's translation of the Rajadhammasangaha
Euan Bagshawe
Dissertation Abstracts
- Lisa Booth Brooten, Global Communications, Local Conceptions: Human Rights and the Politics of Communication Among the Burmese Opposition-In-Exile (Myanmar)
- Wil O. Dijk, Seventeenth Century Burma and the Dutch East India Company, 1634-1680
- Sandra Dudley, Displacement & Identity: Karenni Refugees in Thailand