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BECCARI, Odoardo, Wanderings in the great forests of Borneo: travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak; trans. Enrico H. Giglioli, ed. F.H.H. Guillemard. London, 1904. Google full text
BEECKMAN, Daniel, A voyage to and from the island of Borneo in the East-Indies. Folkestone: Dawsons, 1973 [1718].
BELCHER, Edward, Sir, Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, during the years 1843-46. 2 vols. London: Reeve, 1848.
BOYLE, Frederick, Adventures among the Dyaks of Borneo. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1865.
COOKE, R.M.Oscar, Borneo: stealer of hearts. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah: Borneo Publishing Co., 1991 [1924].
CORTESAO, A., ed., The 'Suma Oriental' of Tome Pires. 2 vols. Hakluyt Society. London, 1944.
CROCKER, W.M., ed., Waiting for the tide; or, scraps and scrawls from Sarawak. Kuching: Crocker & Chapman, 1875.
CURREY, L.E., Borneo. London: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1933.
DE WINDT, Harry, My restless life. London: G. Richards, 1909.
DE WINDT, Harry, On the equator. London: Cassell, Peter, Galpin, [1882?].
DE WINDT, Harry, True tales of travel and adventure. London: Chatto & Windus, 1899. [chapter ?: Some notes on Sarawak]
DENISON, Noel, Jottings made during a tour amongst the Land Dyaks of Upper Sarawak, ... 1874. Singapore: Mission, 1879.
EARL, George Windsor, The eastern seas; or Voyages and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832-33-34. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1971 [1837]. Google full text
FURNESS, William Henry, The home-life of Borneo head-hunters. Phil.: J.B. Lippincott, 1902. Google full text
GOMES, Edwin Hubert, Seventeen years among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo. London: Seeley, 1911.
GRANT, Charles, A tour among the Dyaks of Sarawak in 1858; privately printed, 1864; and To the Far East and back ...; 1888. [Copies in Rhodes House, Oxford, MSS Pac s 90]
GREEN, Eda, Borneo: the land of river and palm. [London]: Borneo Mission Association, [1909].
GULLICK, John M., ed., Adventurous women in South-East Asia: six lives. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. [pp 44-93 Harriette McDougall; pp 147-195 Emily Innes]
GULLICK, John M., ed., They came to Malaya: a travellers' anthology. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1993.
HADDON, Alfred Cort, Headhunters, black, white and brown. London: Methuen, 1901.
HELMS, Ludwig, Pioneering in the Far East, and Journeys to California in 1849, and to the White Sea in 1878. London: W.H. Allen, 1882.
HOSE, Charles, The field-book of a jungle-wallah: being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1985 [1929].
HOSE, Charles, Fifty years of romance and research; or a jungle-wallah at large. London: Hutchinson, 1927.
KEPPEL, Henry, Sir, A visit to the Indian Archipelago in H.M.S. Maeander with portions of the private journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. 2 vols. London: R. Bentley, 1853.
KING, Victor T., ed., The best of Borneo travel. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1992.
LEVIEN, Michael, The Cree journals: the voyages of Edward H. Cree, Surgeon RN, as related in his private journals, 1837-1856. Exeter: Webb & Bower, 1981.
LOW, Hugh, Sarawak; its inhabitants and productions: being notes during a residence in that country with H.H. The Rajah Brooke. London: R. Bentley, 1848 [repr. 1990].
MARRYAT, Frank S., Voyaging in Borneo and the Indian Archipelago. London, 1848.
PFEIFFER, Ida, A lady's second journey round the world. 2 vols. London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1855.
ST. JOHN, Spenser, Sir, Life in the forests of the Far East; or Travels in Northern Borneo. 2 vols. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1974 [1862].
SAUNDERS, GRAHAM, ed. Tropical Interludes : European Life and Society in South-East Asia. Oxford Univ. Press, 1998. [writings by M.Brooke, H. McDougall, F. Boyle, et al.]
SHELFORD, Robert Walter Campbell, A naturalist in Borneo. London: T.F. Unwin,1916.
TREACHER, W.H., British Borneo: sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo. Singapore: Government Printing Dept., 1891. [also in JSS, RAS]
WALLACE, Alfred Russel, The Malay Archipelago: the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983 [1869]. Authorama full text (volume 1) Authorama full text (volume 2)
WALKER, H. Wilfred. Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines. London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1909. Gutenberg full text
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