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A Field Guide to the Birds of West Malaysia and Singapore - Jeyarajasingham
A Field Guide to the Birds... of... West Malaysia and Singapore... by... Allen Jeyarajasingham & Alan Pearson... Although this book describes itself as "the first fully comprehensive field guide to the birds of West Malaysia and Singapore," it probably attempts too much. It is certainly comprehensive, but maybe a...
Price: $96.00
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A Friendship with Birds - Amar Singh
A Friendship with Birds... by... Amar Singh... The author, an established pediatrician, communicates his passion for and knowledge of Malaysia's rich bird life to both experienced bird watchers and novices alike. He confines himself to species that any resident or visitor to the country are likely to see without much...
Price: $26.00
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An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles - Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles:... Campfire Conversations with... Alfred Russel Wallace on... People and Natue Based on Common Travel in the Malay Archipelago... -... Paul Spencer Sochaczewski... This book provides an account of the Victorian-era explorations of Alfred Russel Wallace through Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. Wallace caught, skinned and pickled...
Price: $16.00
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An Introduction to the Natural History of Singapore - DS Johnson
An Introduction to the Natural History of Singapore... by... DS Johnson... The author, a Zoology academic, attached to the University of Singapore, aimed in this work to produce a concise introduction to what flora and fauna were still surviving in Singapore in the middle of the 20th century. The book...
Price: $26.00
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Bamboos of Peninsular Malaysia - KM Wong
Bamboos of Peninsular Malaysia... --... KM Wong... 200 pages with references, appendix, index and some photos... Weight: 1.1 kg. *On request this book will be sent post free by surface mail to any part of the world when it is part of an order weighing at least 2 kilos.*...
Price: $214.00
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Batu-Angas: Envisioning Nature with Alfred Russel Wallace - Anne Cluysenaar
Batu-Angas:... Envisioning Nature with Alfred Russel Wallace... by... Anne Cluysenaar... In this collection of poems, Cluysenaar, retraces the travels of Alfred Russel Wallace to discover how her perceptions of nature changed in the course of her journey. The poems are accompanied with black and white and colour illustrations, some...
Price: $20.00
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Borneo Tom - Tom McLaughlin
Borneo Tom:... In Story and Sketch: Love, Travel and Jungle Family in Tropical Asia... by... Tom McLaughlin... New. Mclaughlin, in an antidote to Rajah Brooke, "the white rajah" of Sarawak, with wit and insight and in prose and sketch explains how Sarawak invaded his heart . The book is a collection...
Price: $13.00
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Burmese and Malayan Cats - Moira K Swift
Burmese and Malayan Cats... - -... Moira K Swift... This is a fairrly detailed guide to Bumese cats and their close relatives from Malaysia, which started being imported into the UK and the US from the beginning of the 20th century onwards. By the time this book was written this breed was...
Price: $16.00
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By Jungle Track and Paddy Field - Teed Apha
By Jungle Track and Paddy Field... -... Teed Apha... This collection of sketches of a very ordinary man of his observations in Australia and the Malayan jungle. The author contrasts Australia as a land of great open desert spaces with the Malayan jungle, a mass of tangled vegetables and fruit hang...
Price: $92.00
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Coastal Resources of East Coast Peninsular Malaysia - Chuah Thia-Eng & Charles
Coastal Resources of East Coast Peninsular Malaysia:... An Assessment in Relation to Potential Oil Spills... Edited by... Chuah Thia-Eng & Joseph K. Charles... This study was published at a stage when Malaysians were beginning to realise that although the oil exploration boom was bringing them increased wealth and a...
Price: $20.00
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Foresters' Manual of Dipterocarps - PS Ashton & S Appanath
Foresters' Manual of Dipterocarps... by... PS Ashton & S Appanath... This book is a revised version of the Symington's Manual which was written 50 years ago. It is the only text on the dipterocarps of Peninsular Malaysia, a rare achievement for a book on plant taxonomy. Symington combined systematic field...
Price: $96.00
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Fresh-Water Fishes of North Borneo - Robert F Inger & Chin Phui Kong
Fresh-Water Fishes of North Borneo... Fieldiana: Zoology Volume 45... by... Robert F Inger & Chin Phui Kong... Although North Borneo, now the Malaysian state of Sabah, comprises about one tenth of Borneo's landmass, when this research was carried out, it included one third of the primary frsh-water fishes...
Price: $56.00
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Heritage Trees of Penang - Gardner, Sidisunthorn & Lai
Heritage Trees of Penang... by... Simon Gardner, Pindar Sidisunthorn... &... Lai Ee May... New. This book is not just for readers who like pretty pictures, although there are plenty of stunning colour photographs of Penang's greenery backed up by beautiful botanical illustrations by Pindar Sidisunthorn. There's also more than enough...
Price: $65.00
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Highland Treasures: Protraits of Highland Orchids in Peninsular Malaysia - Reza
Highland Treasures:... Portraits of Highland Orchids in Peninsular Malaysia... -... Reza Azmi (ed)... A basic guide book which describes orchids in the Highlands Peninsular Malaysia with more than 50 beautiful colour photos. The author details the general characteristics of each species with enough information to encourage the reader to explore further...
Price: $33.00
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Illustrated Keys: Some Mosquitoes in Peninsula Malaysia - J Jeffery et al
Illustrated Keys:... Some Mosquitoes in Peninsula Malaysia... by... J Jeffery et al... With the advent of global warming mosquitoes are thriving. The Malaysian species species are amongst the most significant scientifically in the world. The morphological patterns of each species are illustrated precisely in this book so as to better...
Price: $13.00
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In Borneo Jungles: Among the Dyak Headhunters - William O Krohn
In Borneo Jungles: Among the Dyak Headhunters - William O Krohn... An American forensic surgeon, who travelled to Borneo in 1920s to collect ethnological specimens for the Chicago Museum of Natural History, provided this first-hand account of the Dyak tribe of Borneo
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Journal No 36 January 1901 - Straits Branch of The Royal Asiatic Society
Journal No 36 December 1901... Published by... Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society... This journal contains the following articles: -Notes on Millipedes, Centipedes, Scorpions etc of the Mlaya Peninsula and Siam - Stanley S. Flower,Notes of A Tour through the Siamese States on the West Coast of the Malay...
Price: $43.00
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Journal No 74 December 1916 - Royal Asiatic Society
Journal No 74 December 1916... Published by... Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society... This journal contains the following articles: -Barnacles from Deep-Sea Telegraph Cables in the Malay Archipelago (including three plates of diagrams of barnacles found) by N. Annandale &A Kelantan Glossary by W.E. Pepys. 46 pages...
Price: $30.00
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Malayan Animal Life - MWF Tweedie & JL Harrison
Malayan Animal Life... by... MWF Tweedie & JL Harrison... This book is a handy introduction to anyone wanting to quickly find their way around the abundant species of wildlife on the Malaysian peninsula. The only complaint a modern reader might have is that the book's photographs are in black and...
Price: $10.00
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Malayan Landscape - Katherine Sim
Malayan Landscape... by... Katherine Sim... Sim, the wife of a British customs official and a keen artist, shows in this book how she was able to capture pre-World War II Malaya in words as well. The book is a series of prose sketches, sometimes accompanied by black and white...
Price: $16.00
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Malayan Timbers for Flooring - HJ Burgess
Malayan Timbers for Flooring... -... HJ Burgess... This little handbook was compiled by the author when he was a Timber Research Officer at the Forest Research Institute. It conists of brief details of the recommended timbers with their technical specifications aand suitability for various types of florring use.10pages... Weight 0...
Price: $10.00
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Malaysian Flowers in Colour - Chin Hoong Fong
Malaysian Flowers in Colourby... Chin Hoong Fong... This book, giving details of about 100 of the most attractive and easily found flowers, claims to be the first one published on the subject in full colour. The author, an agronomy and horticultural academic, is particularly keen to see greater propagation of...
Price: $20.00
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Malaysian Timbers for Furniture - P. K. Balan Menon & H. J. Burgess
Malaysian Timbers for Furniture... -... P. K. Balan Menon & H. J. Burgess... (revised by H. C. Sim)... This is a 24-page pamphelt, based on research of the Malaysian Forest Service, surveys the appropriate types of timber suitable for furniture in some technical detail. Weight 0.20 Kg... Condition: Very...
Price: $10.00
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Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 1 (2008) - Chan C. L. & others
Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 1 (2008)... -... Chan C. L. & others... This 151-page journal contains 11 scientific papers on orchid systematics, morphology and natural history written by experts from different countries. The journal includes colourful and detailed photos of orchids describing them in a scientific manner... Weight 0.70...
Price: $26.00
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Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 2 (2008) - CL Chan & Others
Malesian Orchid Journal... Vol 2 (2008)... -... CL Chan & Others... The Journal's contents include the following articles -Two Species of Dendrobium (section Calcarifera) from Sabah &Tainia obpandurata Discovered in Borneo - both by Jeffrey J Wood & Anthony Lamb,Dondrobium Glomeratum Rolfe,Bulbophyllum echinolabium - A Bizarre Species from Sulawesi,Maxis Punctata...
Price: $26.00
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