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Hugh Low - Sarawak: its inhabitants and productions: being notes during a residence in that country with H.H. the Rajah Brooke
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| Schrijver: | Hugh Low |
| Titel: | Sarawak: its inhabitants and productions: being notes during a residence in that country with H.H. the Rajah Brooke |
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| Uitgever: | London, Bentley, 1848. |
| Bijzonderheid: | Original red gilt cloth, (xxiv),416 pp., royal 8vo (23 x 15 cm), frontisp., 3 steel-engr. plates, 1 lithogr., 1 double-p. plate. Very good cond., rebacked, complete with all plates. |
| Prijs: | € 365,00 |
| Meer info | Very good condition (clean, tight and fresh copy, some plates ageing), rare. Low's account of Sarawak at the beginning of a century of rule by the British Rajah James Brooke, a former military officer of the East India Company, had visited the territory (now part of Malaysia) in 1839 and assisted the sultan in suppressing a revolt. He was rewarded in 1841 by being granted the position of rajah of Sarawak. Low served James Brooke for over two years, travelling extensively throughout Sarawak and coming to know more of it than any of his contemporaries. He wrote this book while acting as Colonial Secretary to the Government in Labuan. He studied the Malays, Dyaks, Kayans, Kenyahs. Milanos, Muruts, Kadayans, Bisayahs and other tribes. The flora and fauna, i.a. monkeys, orang utan, panther, reptiles, domestic fowls & animals. The Dutch, English settlers, Muller's expedition, slave debtors Arab descendants. Piracy, opium, exports, manners of women, price of a wife, language, lack of manners, cookery, head hunting. "Taboo", marriage, tattooing, war dress, business trades, etc. |
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