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The Best of Borneo travel
- Title
- The Best of Borneo travel / compiled and introduced by Victor T. King.
- Publication
- Singapore : New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DS646.312 .B47 1993 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- King, Victor T.
- Description
- xviii, 315 pages : illustrations (some color); 20 cm.
- Series Statement
- Oxford in Asia paperbacks
- Uniform Title
- Oxford in Asia paperbacks.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction: Travel and Travellers in Borneo / Victor T. King -- The Wonders of Nature. 1. The Beauty of the Rain Forest / Patrick M. Synge. 2. All on the Bornean Shore / Charles Hose. 3. In Search of the Orang-utan / Odoardo Beccari -- Early European Contacts with Malay Sultanates and Dayak Tribes. 4. The Sultanate of Brunei in 1521 / Antonio Pigafetta. 5. The Sultanate of Banjarmasin in 1714 / Daniel Beeckman. 6. A Visit to the Lundu Dayaks in Western Sarawak / Frank S. Marryat. 7. An Expedition against the Warlike Sea Dayaks (Ibans) of the Saribas / Charles Brooke. 8. The Ascent of Mount Kinabalu / Spenser St. John. 9. A Journey among the Land Dayaks (Bidayubs) / Alfred Russel Wallace. 10. 'Men with Tails' / Carl Bock. 11. An Early Tourist in Sarawak / Frederick Boyle -- Travellers during the Late Colonial Period. 12. Scientific Exploration in the Upper Mahakam Area of South-eastern Borneo / Carl Lumholtz. 13. Rapids and River Travel in East Borneo / H. F. Tillema.
- 14. Official Tours in Colonial Sarawak / Malcolm MacDonald. 15. Stones and Kelabits in Interior Borneo / Tom Harrison -- Recent Travels in Borneo. 16. A Brief Visit to the Ot Danum Dayaks of West Borneo / Marika Hanbury-Tenison. 17. Up the Baleh with Kenyabs and Ibans / Redmond O'Hanlon. 18. The Iban Hornbill Festival / Andro Linklater. 19. In the Rain Forest with Penans / Eric Hansen.
- ISBN
- 0195886038 :
- LCCN
- 92026433
- OCLC
- 26305372
- ocm26305372
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries