The gardens of the sun : a naturalist's journal of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago
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The gardens of the sun : a naturalist's journal of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago
（Oxford in Asia hardback reprints）
Oxford University Press, 1989
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A naturalist's journal on the mountains and in the forests and swamps of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago
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Reprint. Originally published: London : J. Murray, 1880
Bibliography: p. xii (1st group)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Although the main object of the author's journey was the collection of new plants, The Gardens of the Sun is very much more than a naturalist's journal. Rather, it is a delightful, vividly written record of travel and discovery through what Burbidge terms the enormous conservatories of beautiful vegetation - great Zoological Gardens inhabited by birds and curious animals. Little seems to have escaped Frederick Burbidge's eye during his journeys through Sarawak, Labuan, and the north of Borneo to Sulu, and he is equally at home describing his encounters with the people he met on the way and their mode of life as he is in writing about the world of Nature.
Table of Contents
- Eastward, Ho!
- Singapore
- Visit to Jahore - Gunong Puloi
- River and forest travel
- Kina Balu, or Chinese widowmountain
- Labuan island
- Beautiful Borneo
- A city of lake dwellings
- A voyage to Sulu
- A royal pig hunt
- The sultan's istana and the "hill of tears"
- A royal visit
- Kina balu, via Tampassuk
- Tropical fruits
- Notes on tropical travel
- Appendix
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