The Golden Chersonese

by Isabella Bird

A$35 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

Koln. Konemann. 2000. Stock ID #219312 Black and white illustrations, 368pp, appendices, very good copy in dustjacket. Small octavo. In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Isabella Bird, by then an established travel writer, was still 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

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