South-East Asia has always confronted visitors with exotic cultures, strange lands, and proud monarchies. This anthology offers selections from the whole range of European writing--from accounts by sixteenth-century Portuguese and Spanish spice traders to those by nineteenth-century explorers, naturalists, and literary travellers. The writings express the fascination, the excitement, and sometimes the danger of personal adventures and encounters in South-East Asia. It is the work of a talented minority who found delight in a strange world of their time, a world which is rapidly changing and vanishing. These writers have left a vivid record for the entertainment of the modern reader.
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J. M. Gullick is the pre-eminent writer of pre-war Malaysian history and the author of Malay Society in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Beginnings of Change, and Rulers and Residents: Influence and Power in the Malayan States 1870-1920.
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In November 1497, after a grim struggle with the adversities of the sea around the Cape of Good Hope, Vasco da Gama led the first major European incursion into the Indian Ocean, the gateway to South-East Asia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oxford University Press, South-East Asia, Hugh Clifford, Malay States, Megat Pendia, Captain Bird, Captain Lloyd, New York, Carl Bock, Kuala Lumpur, Alfred Russel Wallace, Isabella Bird, King Mongkut, John Thomson, Pnom Penh, Southern Borneo, Donald Moore, Emily Innes, Henri Mouhot, John Murray, Sampson Low, Bandar Hilir, Bukit China, Ethel Hume, Governor General New!
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In November 1497, after a grim struggle with the adversities of the sea around the Cape of Good Hope, Vasco da Gama led the first major European incursion into the Indian Ocean, the gateway to South-East Asia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oxford University Press, South-East Asia, Hugh Clifford, Malay States, Megat Pendia, Captain Bird, Captain Lloyd, New York, Carl Bock, Kuala Lumpur, Alfred Russel Wallace, Isabella Bird, King Mongkut, John Thomson, Pnom Penh, Southern Borneo, Donald Moore, Emily Innes, Henri Mouhot, John Murray, Sampson Low, Bandar Hilir, Bukit China, Ethel Hume, Governor General New!
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- The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace on 5 pages
- The Golden Chersonese (Konemann Classics) by Isabella Bird Bishop on page 154, page 164, and Back Matter
- The Head-Hunters of Borneo (Oxford Paperbacks) by Carl Bock on page 259, and Back Matter
- Bird Of Paradise (Keepsake) by Elaine Harper on page 63, and page 117
- The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L Bird on page 154, and page 164
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- The Great Hill Stations Of Asia by Barbara Crossette in Back Matter
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