Search Results: Titles starting with W from The Penang Bookshelf

Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications (Borneo), 1994. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. An introduction to the Danum Conservation Area, the largest area of protected lowland forest in Sabah. The author, a botanist, was with the project from its inception. with many colour photographs. 98 pages. Please see the scan of the contents page for further details. Weight: 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia

Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications (Borneo), 2011. Second edition. Hardcover. New/new. An introduction to the Danum Conservation Area, the largest area of protected lowland forest in Sabah. The author, a botanist, was with the project from its inception. with many colour photographs. 129 pages. This new edition has additional photographs by wildlife photographer Ch�ien C. Lee. Weight 1kg. Post free within Malaysia

Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International (asia) Pte Ltd, 2014. Second edition. Paperback. New. Although Kuala Lumpur has many of the appearances of a modern 21st city with soaring tower blocks intersected and surrounded by a maze of motorways, this book demonstrates that many traces of the city's past, both in architecture, trades and pastimes still manage to thrive. In a city that is not known to be pedestrian friendly, the authors have managed to demonstrate that a car is not essential to enjoy the streets. New Paperback. Second Edition. Originally published in 2008. 150 pages with an index, maps, suggested walks and many line drawings. Weight: 0.4 kg Post free within Malaysia

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Sin Chew Daily, 2009. First edition. Paperback. New. A history of the Chinese language daily with the largest circulation outside China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Its history has not been easy as it has survived being put into administration and being closed for a short while by the Malaysian Government. New Paperback. First Edition. 299 pages. Weight: 0.8 kg Post free within Malaysia

Midnight Press, 2007. First edition. Paperback. New. New. Shadow Man has had a rough time, firstly during the Japanese occupation of Malaya and then during the 'Emergency' when his father is killed by the Communists. He joins a commando unit to fight the Communists, but disappears in an ambush, missing in action. Although he was assumed dead he has been living, cut off from civilization, with the Akran tribe and now re-emerges after thirty years as a killing machine with a mission to kill the prime minister. Major Mahmud, his former commanding officer, has the job of tracking him down before the assassination is carried out. 332 pages. Weight: 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Cameron was an inveterate traveller and had written several books about her travels elsewhere before this book. Here she records her journey from Singapore through the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, the Dutch East Indies, the South Pacific and onto her journey's end in Tasmania. The journey was accomplished in 1922 and 1923. Good Hardback. First Edition. 269 pages with a fold out coloured map and over 40 black and white plates. Weight: 1 kg Post free within Malaysia The cover is fairly worn, but the gilt titling on the spine is still clearly visible. There is heavy tanning on the end papers. Otherwise the binding is tight, text clear and there is mild tanning and occasional spotting throughout.

Singapore: Oxford University, 1986. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Beccari was an Italian botanist who roamed about Borneo at the end of the first Brooke's time there. While the book is mainly concerned with recording Borneo's unique wildlife habitat before the developments of the 20th century, it also gives useful insights into life in Sarawak at the end of the rule of the first Rajah Brooke. This is a facsimile reprint of the original with over sixty black and white plates and line drawings and three maps. Although there's obviously lots of botanical information in the account of his wanderings that forms the main part of the book, Beccari ends the book with a 40 page appendix on the Bornean Rain Forest itself.Very Good Paperback 424 pages including an index. Weight 0.80 Kg. Postage within Malaysia is free The cover has minimal wear. The binding is tight and there is no tanning throughout.

Singapore: NUS Press, 2019. Paperback. New. This is the extraordinary story of Ida Laura Pfeiffer, an Austrian mid 19th century traveller, who was the first women to circle the globe alone and then did it once more! She was also the world's first budget traveller and wrote up her amazing exploits to fund further travel. 316 pages. New Paperback. Weight: 0.7kg. Post free within Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 2021. First edition. Paperback. New. 16 essays by colleagues and students about the achievements of arguably the leading historian of Southeast Asia today. New Paperback. First Edition. 338 pages with an index. Weight: 0.7 kg Post free within Malaysia

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Monyet Ventures, 2023. First edition. Paperback. New. A photographic essay concentrating mainly on the State Park of Perlis, home to 200 or more bird species and 40 mammal species. The text is in Bahasa Malaysia and English. 152 pages with many colour photographs. New Paperback. First Edition. Weight: 1.0 kg Post free within Malaysia

Penang, Malaysia: Consumers Association of Penang, 2012. Paperback. New. A guide to managing money in Malaysia. The text is in Bahasa Malaysia.New Paperback 330 pages with some line drawings. Weight: 0.6 kg Post free within Malaysia

Singapore: NUS Press, 2012. Paperback. New. Society in pre-World War II Malaya was fragmented and the Japanese occupation helped in many ways to exacerbate those divisions. The authors look at how those divisions are remembered today at the individual, community and state level and their effect on all three elements of society. Please see the scan of the contents page for further details. 459 pages. Weight 0.9 kg. Post free within Malaysia.

Newbury, UK: Philip Cockrill, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. A collection of short memoirs of various prisoners of war originally published in the FEPOW Forum of the London Prisoners of War Association. Included are the official account of Lt. General Louis Heath of the Malaya Campaign, an account by a Dutch women for her children and grandchildren and other accounts. 52 pages with maps, a few black and white photos and drawings. 52 pages. Very Good Paperback First Edition Weight: 0.4kg. Post free within Malaysia The cover has tanned slightly with age. The binding is tight and the text clear with no tanning throughout.

Dehradun, India: Natraj Publishers. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/fine. Percival, very often cited as the scapegoat for the rapid British capitulation to the Japanese, gives his full and comprehensive account of why he and the 85,000 troops under his command couldn't cope. Very Good Hardback in a Fine Dust Jacket. Reprint. Originally published in 1946 312 pages. Weight 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia Apart from some tanning of the text block and the first page of the contents, the book looks new

Penang, Malaysia: Principal Quest, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. This book chronicles the dastardly plot by the American Soybean Association in the 1980s to brand palm oil, Malaysia's major export, as injurious to health. The Malaysian palm oil industry produced research findings to dispute this, resulting in a dismissal of the claim by the US Food and Drug Administration. Very Good Hardback in a Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition 88 pages. Weight 0.4kg. Post free within Malaysia The dust jacket has a few minor bits of dirt and a faint damp stain across part of the top front edge. There is a little bit of spotting on the text block and on the endpapers. Otherwise the binding is tight, the text is clear and there is no tanning throughout.

London: Cassell, 2004. Reprint. Paperback. Good/N/A. 23-4-17. After the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya. To the Chinese-backed guerrillas it was known as �The War of the Running Dogs�. This was a term for those who remained loyal to the British in Malaya. The British Government referred it as �Malayan Emergency�. The war lasted twelve years and cost thousands of lives. Barber draws on his journalist's expertise to provide a colourful history of the period. Good Paperback Reprint 329 pages including a bibliography and index. Weight 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia The cover has minimal wear. There are damp marks on the first four and last four pages. Otherwise The binding is tight and there is mild tanning throughout.

UK: Gainsborough Press, 2002. Paperback. Good. In 1942, a group of brave women were evacuated from Singapore before its fall to the Japanese. Their aim was to reach Australia safely which was hundred of miles away. They did not have a map, travelled across the wilderness of mountains, deep rivers and leech-infested swamps. Only the strong survived in this journey. 297 pages. Mild tanning throughout, mild shelfwear on covers' edges, The bottom quarter of the first page giving a synopsis of the novel has been cut off

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: SIRD, 2016. Paperback. New. This is the fifth book in a series chronicling the efforts of The Mekong Program on Water, Environment and Resilience (M-POWER) in the Mekong River basin in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam to increase user participation in the decision making on water governance. With the help of contributions from a wide range of actors on the project, the reader is able to piece together the chequered pattern of progress over the last decade. 322 pages with a map and an index. Weight 0.7kg. Post free within Malaysia

Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications (Borneo), 2003. First edition. Hardcover. New. A pictorial journey through the state of Sabah with photographs by Bablu Virinder Singh. 356 pages. Weight: 1.7kg Post free within Malaysia but will incur additional postage charges when posted elsewhere.

Tuttle Publishing, 2010. Paperback. Near Fine. An English translation by JH Jackson of this classic Chinese novel with an introduction by Edwin Lowe Near Fine Paperback 798 pages. Weight: 0.9 kg Post free within Malaysia Apart from a little barely noticeable spotting on the text block, the book looks new.