Sarawak; Its Inhabitants and Productions (Classic Reprint): Being Notes During a Residence in That Country With His Excellency Mr. Brooke - Couverture souple

Hugh Low

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331919509 ISBN 13 : 9781331919506

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Hook line : Experience a ground-level portrait of 19th-century Borneo through the eyes of Hugh Low.

See geography, people, and daily life up close, in a moving travel narrative.

This edition offers a vivid, firsthand look at Sarawak and the surrounding regions, blending geographic description with portraits of the communities Low met. You’ll read about the people, their homes, and the everyday tasks that shaped life in this frontier of the Malay world, as documented in a detailed year of observation.

• Firsthand observations of places, settlements, and the rhythms of life along rivers and coastal towns
• Descriptions of Dyak and Malay communities, family life, labor, and social customs
• Accounts of travel, hospitality, ceremonies, trade, and interactions with local leaders
• Insight into the landscape, flora and fauna, and the practical realities of life in 19th-century Sarawak

Ideal for readers of travel history and ethnographic accounts from the colonial era, and for anyone curious about the people and places of old Borneo.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Sarawak; Its Inhabitants and Productions: Being Notes During a Residence in That Country With His Excellency Mr. Brooke

The remarks contained in the following pages have been prepared from notes collected during a residence of about thirty months in Sarawak, and the west coast of Borneo. My object, (the collection of plants and seeds,) led me more into the country, and amongst the tribes of aborigines, than any other Englishman who has yet visited the shores of this Island; and I trust that, though very incomplete, this Work may, in the absence of others on the subject, be found to contain some interesting information respecting the domestic economy of the people.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Sarawak, and the west coast of Borneo. My object, (the collection of plants and seeds,) led me more into the country, and amongst the tribes of aborigines, than any other Englishman who has yet visited the shores of this I sland; and I trust that, though very incomplete, this Work may, in the absence of others on the subject, be found to contain some interesting information respecting the domestic economy of the people.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331919509
• ISBN 13: 9781331919506
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 456
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