Written as letters to her sister, these chapters follow Isabella Bird from Hong Kong and Canton to Singapore and Malacca, then into the Malay states of Sungei Ujong, Selangor and Perak, where she rode elephants through the jungle and stayed with British Residents. She describes sultans, Chinese miners, tigers and the workings of colonial rule.
A fearless Victorian traveller’s portrait of the Malay Peninsula at the start of British control. Download the free EPUB.