Golden Chersonese
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Golden Chersonese
Hill Top
houses
indigenous peoples studies
Langat Rivers
LLR
malay
Malay Houses
Malay Peninsula ethnography
Malay states travel accounts
mangrove
Mangrove Swamps
Mount Ophir
nineteenth century exploration
palm
Perak River
Province Wellesley
residency
settlements
straits
Straits Settlements
Sultan's House
Sungei Ujong
Superb
swamp
Tartar City
tropical biodiversity research
Unexplored Jungle
Wild Men
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780710309334
- Weight: 861g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2004
- Publisher: Kegan Paul
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Even in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Isabelle Bird, by then an established travel writer, was able to refer to the Malay Peninsula as an almost unknown land. Travelling back from Japan, the intrepid travel writer stopped off in Singapore where the British Colonial Secretary offered her the opportunity to vist the native states of the Western Archipelago. Because she had such a good introduction, she went and was taken everywhere by local officials. And so Miss Bird's journey was less rugged than her many other trips, but, rather more comfortable and well connected, she enjoyed it immensely.
Isabella Lucy Bird was perhaps the most prolific and popular female traveller and writer of the 19th century.
