{"product_id":"2940012986238","title":"The Malay Archipelago, Volume I","description":"THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER I.     PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER II.    SINGAPORE.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER III.   MALACCA AND MOUNT OPHIR.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER IV.    BORNEO--THE ORANGUTAN.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER V.     BORNEO--JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER VI.    BORNEO--THE DYAKS.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER VII.   JAVA.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER VIII.  SUMATRA.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER IX.    NATURAL HISTORY OF THE INDO-MALAY ISLANDS.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER X.     BALI AND LOMBOCK.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XI.    LOMBOCK: MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XII.   LOMBOCK: HOW THE RAJAH TOOK THE CENSUS.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XIII.  TIMOR.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XIV.   THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TIMOR GROUP.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XV.    CELEBES.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XVI.   CELEBES.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XVII.  CELEBES.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XVIII. NATURAL HISTORY OF CELEBES.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XIX.   BANDA.\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XX.    AMBOYNA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a look at a globe or a map of the Eastern hemisphere, we shall\u003cbr\u003eperceive between Asia and Australia a number of large and small islands\u003cbr\u003eforming a connected group distinct from those great masses of land, and\u003cbr\u003ehaving little connection with either of them. Situated upon the Equator,\u003cbr\u003eand bathed by the tepid water of the great tropical oceans, this region\u003cbr\u003eenjoys a climate more uniformly hot and moist than almost any other part\u003cbr\u003eof the globe, and teems with natural productions which are elsewhere\u003cbr\u003eunknown. The richest of fruits and the most precious of spices are\u003cbr\u003eIndigenous here. It produces the giant flowers of the Rafflesia, the\u003cbr\u003egreat green-winged Ornithoptera (princes among the butterfly tribes),\u003cbr\u003ethe man-like Orangutan, and the gorgeous Birds of Paradise. It is\u003cbr\u003einhabited by a peculiar and interesting race of mankind--the Malay,\u003cbr\u003efound nowhere beyond the limits of this insular tract, which has hence\u003cbr\u003ebeen named the Malay Archipelago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo the ordinary Englishman this is perhaps the least known part of the\u003cbr\u003eglobe. Our possessions in it are few and scanty; scarcely any of our\u003cbr\u003etravellers go to explore it; and in many collections of maps it is\u003cbr\u003ealmost ignored, being divided between Asia and the Pacific Islands. It\u003cbr\u003ethus happens that few persons realize that, as a whole, it is comparable\u003cbr\u003ewith the primary divisions of the globe, and that some of its separate\u003cbr\u003eislands are larger than France or the Austrian Empire. The traveller,\u003cbr\u003ehowever, soon acquires different ideas. He sails for days or even weeks\u003cbr\u003ealong the shores of one of these great islands, often so great that its\u003cbr\u003einhabitants believe it to be a vast continent. He finds that voyages\u003cbr\u003eamong these islands are commonly reckoned by weeks and months, and that\u003cbr\u003etheir several inhabitants are often as little known to each other as are\u003cbr\u003ethe native races of the northern to those of the southern continent of\u003cbr\u003eAmerica. He soon comes to look upon this region as one apart from the\u003cbr\u003erest of the world, with its own races of men and its own aspects of\u003cbr\u003enature; with its own ideas, feelings, customs, and modes of speech, and\u003cbr\u003ewith a climate, vegetation, and animated life altogether peculiar to\u003cbr\u003eitself.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073704542448,"sku":"2940012986238","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012986238_p0.jpg?v=1763575400","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012986238","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}