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Travels in the East Indian archipelago

Chapter 27: BOOKS OF TRAVEL.
By Albert S. Bickmore
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A first-person travel narrative records voyages across the East Indian archipelago, from Java's coasts and colonial port cities to islands such as Celebes, Timor, Amboina, and the Banda group. It combines systematic natural-history collecting—especially shells—with descriptions of tropical flora and fauna, volcanic geology, and climatic patterns. Ethnographic detail covers temples and religious practices, marketplaces, local modes of travel and industry, and relations under colonial rule. Practical observations, sketches of daily life, and mapped itineraries are interwoven with excursions, scientific notes, and vivid scene-setting throughout.

THE END.

BOOKS OF TRAVEL.

THE ART OF TRAVEL; or, Shifts and Contrivances available in Wild Countries. By Francis Galton, F.R.G.S. 4th Edition. Woodcuts Small 8vo. 7s. 6d.

A MANUAL OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY, prepared for the Use of Officers in H. M. Navy and Travellers in general. Originally edited by Sir John Herschel, Bart. 3rd Edition, revised by Rev. Robert Main, M.A., Radcliffe Observer. Post 8vo. 9s. (Published by Order of the Lords of the Admiralty.)

THE NATURALIST ON THE RIVER AMAZONS; a Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during Eleven Years of Travel and Adventure. By H. W. Bates. With 40 Illustrations. 2nd Edition. Post 8vo. 12s.

JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRIES VISITED DURING A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. By Charles Darwin, F.R.S. 10th Edition. Post 8vo. 9s.

RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST ON THE SHORES AND WATERS OF THE CHINA SEA. Being Observations in Natural History during a Voyage to China, Formosa, Borneo, Singapore, &c., in 1866-7. By Dr. Cuthbert Collingwood. Illustrations. 8vo. 16s.

TRAVELS OF A FRENCH NATURALIST IN THE CENTRAL PARTS OF INDO-CHINA (SIAM), CAMBODIA, AND LAOS. During the years 1858-60. By Henri Mouhot, F.R.G.S. With 90 Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo. 32s.

NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO YEDO AND PEKIN: With Notices of the Natural Productions, Agriculture, Horticulture, and Trade of those Countries. By Robert Fortune, Honorary Member of the Agri.-Horti. Society of India. With 20 Illustrations. 8vo. 16s.

THE GREAT SAHARA. Wanderings South of the Atlas Mountains. By Rev. H. B. Tristram, M.A., F.L.S. With 30 Illustrations. Post 8vo. 15s.

THE NILE AND ITS BANKS; a Journal of Travels in Egypt and Nubia, showing their Attractions to the Archæologist, the Naturalist, and General Tourist. By Rev. A. C. Smith, M.A. With Illustrations. 2 vols. Post 8vo. 18s.

TRAVELS IN PERU AND INDIA, while superintending the Collection of Cinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and their Introduction into India. By Clements R. Markham, M.A., F.R.G.S. With Map and Illustrations. 8vo. 16s.

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.