Search Results: Borneo, Malaysia, Indonesia from Focloir

Malaysia 001 Leigh, Michael B. The Chinese Community of Sarawak: A Study of Communal Relations. Singapore: Malaysia Publishing House for the Department of History, University of Singapore, 1964, 68 pages, bib. Paperback, some cover wear but good overall. $ 8.50

RU 1010 Webster, E. M. The Moon Man: Biography of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984, xxv, 421 pages, notes, bib, index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
"This story of an outstandingly strange and interesting man is a triumph of modern biograpny. Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) was one of the most extraordinary of all the nineteenth-century savant-adventurers. a brilliant student of Ernst Haeckel, he embraced the natural sciences at a time when the genius of Darwin was revolutionizing Western cosmology. In his short lifetime he made the whole world his laboratory: sponges in the Red Sea, and the ancestry of sharks, head measurements in New Guinea; Negrito races in Malay jungles; marine life in Sydney Harbor -- all these and a hundred other topics and places engaged his curiosity. 'This is much more than a highly literate recounting of Miklouho-Maclay's expeditionary work it is a fascinating and original study of the psychology of ethnographic research. Its main… Read More