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Book Number: 21 730

MacGregor, John

THROUGH THE BUFFER STATE - Travels in Borneo, Siam, Cambodia, Malaya, and Burma

THROUGH THE BUFFER STATE (3.7 K)

This book presents the recollections of the travels made by John MacGregor in Sarawak, Siam, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaya and Burma in 1895. It is a lively account of a medical doctor with a wide scope of interests, from contemporary political issues to the customs and the traditions of native peoples. From a well-read background, the traveler is searching for those weird things one often finds in travelogues, in order to verify and to savour. The account excels in its colourful and often witty descriptions of encounters and events on the roads between Singapore, Kuching, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Saigon, Malacca and Mandalay. It presents an accurate and lively picture of the people and the countries on the eve of rapid development.

(Bangkok 1994, reprint from 1896)

ISBN 974-8496-25-2

300 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk.

19.50 US-Dollar

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