The Sea Gypsies of Malaya.: An Account of the Nomadic Mawken People of the Mergui Archipelago with a Description of Their Ways of Living, Customs, Habits, Boats, Occupations, etc.
by WHITE, Walter Grainge
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- Hardcover
- first
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited,, 1922. First edition, first impression, with a pleasing provenance, of this anthropological study which argues that Mawken culture and pisci-agricultural knowledge should be preserved in the face of increasingly assimilative forces. White arranged for the foreword to be written by the Oxford don Robert Marrett, one of the leading lights of British anthropology during the field's formative period. This copy is from the library of Sir Evan Davies Jones (1859-1949), with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Jones was a civil engineer who worked on government hydro-engineering projects in Malaya, Gibraltar, Singapore, Egypt, and elsewhere. He served as MP for Pembrokeshire between 1918 and 1922 and as a life-governor of the National Library of Wales, to which he donated his extensive collection of Welsh bookplates and materials relating to Welsh history. Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in green, green frame and vignette on front board. With half-tone frontispiece showing a kabang opened out, 15 similar plates, folding map of the Mergui Archipelago and the Malay Peninsula. Cloth and contents bright, a fine copy.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 163570
- Title
- The Sea Gypsies of Malaya.
- Author
- WHITE, Walter Grainge
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited,
- Date Published
- 1922
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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