Streets of George Town Penang... by... Khoo Su Nin... New. This current and fourth edition of probably Penang's best selling guide book only required a few small changes from the previous editions not only because it was written by one of the island's best known scholar activists but also because...
The Garden of Evening Mists... by... Tan Twan Eng... New. In common with Tan's highly successful first novel, The Gift of Rain, which was longisted for the Booker Prize, this new work, although set in the Malaya of the 'Emergency', has links with the Second World War and with Japanese...
The Penang Adventure:... A History of the Pearl of the Orientby... Raymond Flower... If you're looking for a concise history of Penang that's not a heavy read, this may be the book. Its 173 pages contain most of the the basic facts about the island's colourful history over more than...
The Three White Rajahs... by... Sylvia Brooke (Rani of Sarawak)... New. Having first got her autobiography out of the way, Sylvia of Sarawak, the wife of the last Raja went on to write about the reigns of her husband and his two predecessors. Her husband, Vyner, says in his preface...
Please note the copies of this book are en route to The Penang Bookshelf from the publishers in the States. They're expected to arrive in early May. Until then we are taking forward orders of this popular book... Twentieth-century Impressions of British Malaya:... Its History, People, Commerce, Industries and...
Britain, The Brookes and Brunei... -... Nicholas Tarling... This study covers British contact with Brunei and its successor states from the late 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century. From the outset British policy saw the area mainly as an important part of the jigsaw of relationships that protected...
Paper Currency... of... Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei (1849-1970)... by... William Shaw and Mohd. Kassim Haji Ali... Each currency of these three countries is described in detail with information about size, measurements and colour. There is an extensive range of black and white plates. This book has 123 pages in...
Sarawak and Brunei:... A Report on the 1947 Population Census... -... JL Noakes... This 1947 report contains details of the first scientific census carried out in Sarawak and Brunei. Prior to this there had been unscientific head counts, There are five parts in this report: Introduction, The enumeration of the population...
Shaer Yang Di-Pertuan... (Sultan Mohammad Jamalul Alam)... -... Abdul Razak bin Hassanudin... This is work is a lengthy Malay poem written about the short life of Sultan Mohammad Jamalul Alam II of Brunei. The poem was originally composed in the Jawi script. In this work a correponding transliteration into the...
Southeast Asian personalities of Chinese Descent... 2 Volumes-... Leo Suryadinata (ed)... New. For several centuries emigrants from China have been at the centre of trade in Southeast Asia. This volume, with nearly 200 contributors, assembles together pithy biographies of hundreds of the principal personalities who have contributed to trade and...
Shaer Yang Di-Pertuan... (Sultan Mohammad Jamalul Alam)... -... Abdul Razak bin Hassanudin... This is work is a lengthy Malay poem written about the short life of Sultan Mohammad Jamalul Alam II of Brunei. The poem was originally composed in the Jawi script. In this work a correponding transliteration into the...
The Sea Gypsies of Malaya... by... Walter Grainge White... New. This is a reprint of the anthropological research carried out by the author in the early part of the 20th century while making a census of the Mawken.This was a period when this people were beginning to adapt to...
Myanmar Architecture:... Cities of Gold... by... Ma Thanegi & Barry Broman... Burma is one of the few parts of Southeast Asia that has been left virtually untouched by tourists. The country's also fortunate in that it hasn't suffered major warfare since the end of the Second World War. As a...
British Colonial Policy in Burma... by... Aparna Mukherjee... It's not a very widely publicised fact - in Britain anyway - that Burma was also part of the British Empire. That's probably because Burma, unlike most former colonies, did not opt to join the Commonwelath on independence. This book, which details the British...
Mandalay to Momien... A narrative of the two Expeditions to Western China of 1868 and 1875 under Colonel E.B. Sladen and Colonel H. Browne... by... John Anderson... New. The author, a qualified medical doctor who transformed himself into a museum curator, managed to be included as part of two...
Myanmar Architecture:... Cities of Gold... by... Ma Thanegi & Barry Broman... Burma is one of the few parts of Southeast Asia that has been left virtually untouched by tourists. The country's also fortunate in that it hasn't suffered major warfare since the end of the Second World War. As a...
Southeast Asia :... Past and Present... - -... D.R. SarDesai... This, by now, standard work on the history of the region was one of the first to be written from more of an Asio-centric, rather than Western,point of view. In fact the author, an established professor at the University of...
Southeast Asian personalities of Chinese Descent... 2 Volumes-... Leo Suryadinata (ed)... New. For several centuries emigrants from China have been at the centre of trade in Southeast Asia. This volume, with nearly 200 contributors, assembles together pithy biographies of hundreds of the principal personalities who have contributed to trade and...
The Sea Gypsies of Malaya... by... Walter Grainge White... New. This is a reprint of the anthropological research carried out by the author in the early part of the 20th century while making a census of the Mawken.This was a period when this people were beginning to adapt to...
The West in Asia 1850-1914... by... Michael Edwardes... The really active time for Government inspired Western imperialism in Asia was relatively short, less than a century. Before that the bucaneers and tradesmen, often unwittingly, laid the foundations for something bigger to come. World War I showed the West had...
Asiatic Land Battles:... Allied Victories in China and Burma... by... Trevor Nevitt Dupuy... This outline takes the reader through the closing stages of the war in China and Burma The author is a retired US army colonel who gives a US perspective on the events. Illustrated with maps and photos...
Burma: The Forgotten War... by... Jon Latimer... Jon Latimer, a specialist in World War II history, in this major work brings provides us with a comprehensive account of the efforts of military leaders, such as Slim, Mountbatten and Wingate, the untiring foot soldiers from India and the rest of the...
Safer than a Known Way... by... Ian MacHorton... Chindit left behind in Burma evaded Japanese to return to Imphal. 248 pages... Weight 0.3kg. Please note this book will be shipped from the UK. If you live outside Europe, please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery... Published by Popular Book...
A Dragon Apparent... -... Norman Lewis... The veteran travel writer and novelist, Norman Lewis, decided to explore Indo-China at a time when it was in a considerable state of flux. The Japanese colonists had just left and the French were trying to re-exert their own version of colonial control...
Going Indochinese:... Contesting Concepts of Space and Place in French Indochina... by... Christopher E. Goscha... This book, originally published in 1995 as 'Vietnamese Nationalism' is now republished with major revisions by the author. He looks at how nationalism in each of France's former Southeast Asian colonies developed under the shadow...
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