Isabella Bird. What an extraordinary Victorian lady. This book is a very detailed account of her visit to the Malaysian Peninsular in 1879. At that time only the coastal areas were known to the Europeans. The book starts in Hong Kong and tracks her journey down the Chinese coast via Canton (today's Guangzhou) to Singapore, up through the Straits of Malacca via Malacca itself, Klang, Penang .....need to finish the book!!!!. Her description of the state of the goals in Canton makes harrowing reading. The Malaysia she describes does still exist, but boy, you have to look very hard for it. No more do tigers and black panthers terrorise the villages and towns. Even the mosquitoes are less in evidence.
Monday, September 06, 2010
Book - The Golden Chersonese.
Isabella Bird. What an extraordinary Victorian lady. This book is a very detailed account of her visit to the Malaysian Peninsular in 1879. At that time only the coastal areas were known to the Europeans. The book starts in Hong Kong and tracks her journey down the Chinese coast via Canton (today's Guangzhou) to Singapore, up through the Straits of Malacca via Malacca itself, Klang, Penang .....need to finish the book!!!!. Her description of the state of the goals in Canton makes harrowing reading. The Malaysia she describes does still exist, but boy, you have to look very hard for it. No more do tigers and black panthers terrorise the villages and towns. Even the mosquitoes are less in evidence.
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