Title: Sarawak; Its Inhabitants and Productions : Being Notes During a Residence in That Country with His Excellency Mr. Brooke (Classic Reprint)
Publisher: Forgotten Books Apr 2018
Publication Date: 2018
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1331919509
ISBN 13: 9781331919506
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu
Dimensions: 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 24 millimeters depth
Weight: 1270 grams

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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.

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