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This anthology contains a representative range of writings on Borneo, from the early period of European contact in the 16th century to the present day, to illustrate those features of Borneo which captured the Western imagination.
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The Best of Borneo Travel (Oxford Paperbacks)
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Oxford University Press (edition ), 1993
ISBN 10 : 0195886038
ISBN 13 : 9780195886030
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The Best of Borneo Travel (Oxford Paperbacks)
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Oxford University Press, 1993
ISBN 10 : 0195886038
ISBN 13 : 9780195886030
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The Best of Borneo Travel (Oxford Paperbacks)
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Oxford University Press, 1993
ISBN 10 : 0195886038
ISBN 13 : 9780195886030
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The Best of Borneo Travel
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Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0195886038
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Soft Cover. Etat : Fine. First Edition. This anthology provides a wild and wonderful series of extracts from travel writing about Borneo over four centuries. Each extract, substantial and self-contained in itself, gives a flavour and sense of travel, with authors ranging from Antonio Pigafetta who, writing in the sixteenth century, provided the first and best description of the Sultanate of Brunei, to Eric Hansen whose accounts of forest journeys on foot with Penans was first published in 1988. Extracts provide us with European perceptions of the exotic: the wonders of the equatorial rain forest; the fauna, such as the orang-utan; flora, like the pitcher plants; the rivers and rapids; the mountains, such as Kinabalu. But just as the natural environment was seen to be untamed and exuberant, so were the inhabitants, and European travellers often focused on the practices of head-hunting and tribal warfare, as well as on piracy and coastal raiding. Cultural characteristics were emphasized which depicted barbarism and the remarkable: animal sacrifice; funeral rites; striking bodily adornments, such as tattoos, beads, ear-plugs, and feathered head-dresses. Europeans saw natives close to nature and, in the extreme, writers like Carl Bock believed the stories and rumours of 'men with tails'. Professor King sets the scene to this representative range of writings on Borneo with an informative and entertaining Introduction and, in addition, provides background information on each of the travellers and their works. xviii, 315 pp, 10 b&w plates. A new/unread copy in original shrinkwrap. Size: 19 x 13 cm. N° de réf. du vendeur 000776
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The best of Borneo travel
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Oxford Univ Press, 1992
ISBN 10 : 0195886038
ISBN 13 : 9780195886030
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BEST OF BORNEO TRAVEL
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Oxford University Press, Oxf. U. P. E. Asia, 1992
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ISBN 13 : 9780195886030
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Soft cover. Etat : As New. 4th Edition. Book Condition: As New. 4th Impression, 2001. Singapore 2001. 315 pp., 11 pp. illus., 1 map, 130 x 195 mm, pbk Weight 0.385 Kgs. The Best of Borneo Travel is just that, a fascinating collection of colorful travel notes by Westerners--from those who first visited this Indonesian island-nation in the the sixteenth century to writers still enthralled by Borneo today. Through the eyes of these European explorers, merchants, administrators, and adventurers we see the kinds of images that captivated the popular imagination of Europe, as well as the stereotypes that developed regarding Borneo's "exotic" peoples and cultures. We witness first-hand the wonders of the equatorial rainforest: animals such as the orang utan, the beautiful flowers and trees that abound along the rivers and rapids, majestic mountains like Kinabalu, sacred to the Borneans. And in some of the nineteenth century accounts we see a reflection of the prevailing social Darwinism of the period--the "natural" assertion of Western political, military, and economic superiority over the "Wild Men of Borneo." Nevertheless, many travelers to Borneo writing here remarked on the wealth and cultural sophistication of the native peoples, and after the first flush of colonialism, the accounts returning to Europe become more balanced--while the interest in the new and strange continues, it is tempered with descriptions of people that are, as people are everywhere, "just like us.". N° de réf. du vendeur 000363
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Best of Borneo Travel, the
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White Lotus Press, Singapore, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0195886038
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Paperback. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : no dj. Best of Borneo Travel, the. Book. N° de réf. du vendeur N2996
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