A Decade in Borneo
Author | : Ada Pryer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Borneo |
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Author | : Ada Pryer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Borneo |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ada Pryer |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780718501976 |
"In 1878 a German named Overbeck and an Englishman named Dent travelled to North Borneo (now Sabah), announced to the locals that their ruler, the Sultan of Brunei, had sold all trade rights in the region, and left a young man named William Pryer to 'establish' the British North Borneo Company there. In 1894 Ada Pryer, who had married William in 1883, published her account of his early years as an administrator, along with some sketches of their life together. The result is a lively, vivid and compelling narrative." "The only book aimed at presenting North Borneo appealingly to British audiences, and thus capturing their political support for the British commercial presence there, Ada's little book functioned as a kind of immigration manual about a land where snakes were scarce and moonlight was plentiful. The memoir has value both as a travel narrative in its own right and for understanding the international politics of the British takeover of North Borneo." "This new edition reproduces the text of the original 1894 edition, and includes an introductory essay as well as annotations to explain and contextualize references of historical and biographical significance."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Ada Pryer ("Mrs. W.B. Pryer".) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Borneo |
ISBN | : |
Author | : MRS. W. B. PRYER |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781033539095 |
Author | : ADA Pryer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2016-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781361728864 |
Author | : Mrs W. B. Pryer |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2018-04-22 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781333633455 |
Excerpt from A Decade in Borneo The first white resident in the territories of the British North Borneo Company and one of its most enthusiastic officers, i\ir. Pryer, in taking up an independent position in the country as he now has done. Should be able the better to advance its interests. Ilis faith in the future has long been established by his making North Borneo his home, and his wife is none the less earnest than himself in the work of realizing their unbounded faith in one of the most patriotic of modern enterprises. Mrs. Pryer in the following pages has added much to our knowledge of Borneo, and she keeps well in view the main objects of the founders of the latest British posses sion. Ifeel honoured in being asked to write a few lines by way of Preface to a work which so happily combines utility with romance, and Constitutes a new and stirring chapter in the history of the Eastern Seas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Ada Pryer |
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Genre | : British Borneo |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Biruté Marija Filomena Galdikas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Orangutan |
ISBN | : 9780575400023 |
Since 1971 Birute Galdikas has lived and worked in the forests of Borneo, documenting the lives of the orangutans. This text describes her groundbreaking scientific and conservation work that has been recorded in more than a dozen television documentaries
Author | : Redmond O'Hanlon |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0140073973 |
'The most hilarious travel book in many years' - Standard. Armed with equipment and advice from 22 SAS, Hereford, and accompanied by three trackers, Redmond O'Hanlon, the naturalist, and James Fenton, the poet, set out on a long river voyage into the interior of a tropical jungle hoping to reach the Tiban massif. At once funny and knowledgeable, Redmond O'Hanlon's account of how they battled with insects, discomfort and setbacks is a hugely entertaining and informative adventure story in the best tradition of the world's great travel classics. 'A marvellous book ... a very funny and expert witness' - Edward St Aubyn in the Tatler. 'Consistently exciting, often funny, and erudite without ever being overwhelming' - Punch.
Author | : Carl Hoffman |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2018-03-06 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0062439049 |
A 2019 EDGAR AWARDS NOMINEE (BEST FACT CRIME) • A BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARDS FINALIST Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary “Wild Men of Borneo.” One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization—or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times bestselling author Carl Hoffman journeyed to find the truth, discovering that nothing is as it seems in the world’s last Eden, where the lines between sinner and saint blur into one. In 1984, Swiss traveler Bruno Manser joined an expedition to the Mulu caves on Borneo, the planet’s third largest island. There he slipped into the forest interior to make contact with the Penan, an indigenous tribe of peace-loving nomads living among the Dayak people, the fabled “Headhunters of Borneo.” Bruno lived for years with the Penan, gaining acceptance as a member of the tribe. However, when commercial logging began devouring the Penan’s homeland, Bruno led the tribe against these outside forces, earning him status as an enemy of the state, but also worldwide fame as an environmental hero. He escaped captivity under gunfire twice, but the strain took a psychological toll. Then, in 2000, Bruno disappeared without a trace. Had he become a madman, a hermit, or a martyr? American Michael Palmieri is, in many ways, Bruno’s opposite. Evading the Vietnam War, the Californian wandered the world, finally settling in Bali in the 1970s. From there, he staged expeditions into the Bornean jungle to acquire astonishing art and artifacts from the Dayaks. He would become one of the world’s most successful tribal-art field collectors, supplying sacred works to prestigious museums and wealthy private collectors. And yet suspicion shadowed this self-styled buccaneer who made his living extracting the treasure of the Dayak: Was he preserving or exploiting native culture? As Carl Hoffman unravels the deepening riddle of Bruno’s disappearance and seeks answers to the questions surrounding both men, it becomes clear saint and sinner are not so easily defined and Michael and Bruno are, in a sense, two parts of one whole: each spent his life in pursuit of the sacred fire of indigenous people. The Last Wild Men of Borneo is the product of Hoffman’s extensive travels to the region, guided by Penan through jungle paths traveled by Bruno and by Palmieri himself up rivers to remote villages. Hoffman also draws on exclusive interviews with Manser’s family and colleagues, and rare access to his letters and journals. Here is a peerless adventure propelled by the entwined lives of two singular, enigmatic men whose stories reveal both the grandeur and the precarious fate of the wildest place on earth.