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Title:
THE GOLDEN CHERSONESE
A NINETEETH-CENTURY ENGLISHWOMAN'S TRAVELS IN SINGAPORE AND THE MALAY PENINSULA
By:
Isabella L. Bird
Format:
Paperback
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ISBN 10:
9810844840
ISBN 13:
9789810844844
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Publisher:
MONSOON BOOKS
Pub. date:
1 February, 2010
Pages:
352
Synopsis:
In 1880, Isabella Bird visited the Malay Peninsula-romantically dubbed 'The Golden Chersonese'-and was still able to refer to it as an almost unknown land. The world's most famous female travel writer of the nineteenth century set sail from Japan and called at Hong Kong, Canton and Saigon before reaching Singapore. Bearing letters of introduction to the elite of Malacca and Penang, Bird was able to observe life on the west coast of the peninsula before steaming upriver through mangrove swamps to explore the interior of the land. From courtroom to elephant back, from the grandeur of Malacca's Stadthuys to the jungle calm of a picturesque Malay village on stilts, this indefatigable Victorian explorer offers invaluable descriptions and delightful hand-drawn sketches of life in late nineteenth-century Singapore and the Malay Peninsula.
Illustrations:
16 b/w sketches
Publication:
Singapore
Imprint:
monsoon
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