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Anthropology

Topic	Author	Date	Title
Orang Asal	Hose	1912	The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations Vol. 1 [1]
Orang Asal	Hose	1912	The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations Vol. 2 [2]
Iban	Edwin H. Gomes	1911	Seventeen years among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo; a record of intimate association with the natives of the Bornean jungles [3]
Iban	Edwin H. Gomes	1912	Children of Borneo [4]
Bidayuh	Noel Dennison	1879	Jottings made during a tour amongst the Land Dyaks of upper Sarawak, Borneo, during the year 1874 [5]
Orang Asal	Henry Ling Roth	1896	Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo : based chiefly on the MSS. of the late Hugh Brooke Low, Sarawak Government Service Vol. 1 [6]
Orang Asal	Henry Ling Roth	1896	Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo : based chiefly on the MSS. of the late Hugh Brooke Low, Sarawak Government Service Vol. 2 [7]

Arts and culture

Topic	Author	Date	Title

Biography

Subject	Author	Date	Title

Business and economy

Topic	Author	Date	Title

Fiction, poetry and humour - Malaysian authors

Language	Author	Date	Title

Fiction – set in Malaysia - non-Malaysian authors

Setting	Author	Date	Title

Science, geography, nature

Topic / Region	Author	Date	Title
Evolution / Sarawak	Alfred Russel Wallace	1869	The Malay Archipelago : the land of the oranguatan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature [8]
Botany / Sarawak	Odoardo Beccari	1904	Wanderings in the great forests of Borneo; travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak [9]

History

General history – summaries

Author Last	Author First	Date	Title
St. John	Horace	1853	The Indian Archipelago: Its History and Present State, Volume 1 [10]
St. John	Horace	1853	The Indian Archipelago: Its History and Present State, Volume 2 [11]

Ancient history

Author Last	Author First	Date	Title

Pre-colonial history

Author Last	Author First	Date	Title

Colonial history – Borneo

Author Last	Author First	Date	Title
Keppel	Henry	1846	The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: Vol 1 [12]
Keppel	Henry	1846	The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: Vol 2 [13]
Brooke	James	1842	A letter from Borneo : with notices of the country and its inhabitants, addressed to James Gardner [14]
Mundy	Rodney	1848	Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, down to the Occupation of Labuan: from the Journals of James Brooke, Esq. Vol. 1 [15]
Mundy	Rodney	1848	Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, down to the Occupation of Labuan: from the Journals of James Brooke, Esq. Vol. 2 [16]
Belcher	Edward	1848	Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, During the Years 1843-46; Employed surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago Vol. 1 [17]
Belcher	Edward	1848	Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, During the Years 1843-46; Employed surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago Vol. 2 [18]
Marryat	Frank	1848	Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with Drawings of Costume and Scenery [19]
McDougall	Harriette	1854	Letters from Sarawak; Addressed to a Child [20]
McDougall	Harriette	1882	Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak [21]
Brooke	Charles	1866	Ten Years in Sarawak Vol. 1 [22]
Brooke	Charles	1866	Ten Years in Sarawak Vol. 2 [23]
Helms	Ludvig Verner	1882	Pioneering in the Far East [24]
Foggo	George	1853	Adventures of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., Rajah of Sarawak, "sovereign de facto of Borneo proper," late governor of Labuan : from Rajah Brooke's own diary and correspondence, or from government official documents [25]
Templer	John Charles	1853	The Private Letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. Rajah of Sarawak, Narrating the Events of his Life, from 1838 to the Present Time Vol. 1 [26]
Templer	John Charles	1853	The Private Letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. Rajah of Sarawak, Narrating the Events of his Life, from 1838 to the Present Time Vol. 2 [27]
Templer	John Charles	1853	The Private Letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. Rajah of Sarawak, Narrating the Events of his Life, from 1838 to the Present Time Vol. 3 [28]
Brooke	James	1853	A Vindication of His Character and Proceedings: In Reply to the Statements Privately Printed and Circulated by Joseph Hume Esq. M.P. [29]
Jacob	Gertrude L.	1876	The Raja of Sarawak: An Account of Sir James Brooke, given chiefly through Letters and Journals, in Two Volumes, Vol. I [30]
Jacob	Gertrude L.	1876	The Raja of Sarawak: An Account of Sir James Brooke, given chiefly through Letters and Journals, in Two Volumes, Vol. II [31]
Earl	George Windsor	1837	The Eastern seas; or, Voyages and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832-33-34, comprising a tour of the island of Java -- visits to Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Siam &c [32]
St. John	Horace	1853	The Indian Archipelago: Its History and Present State, Volume 1 [33]
St. John	Horace	1853	The Indian Archipelago: Its History and Present State, Volume 2 [34]
Boyle	Frederick	1865	Adventures Among the Dyaks of Borneo [35]
Pfeiffer	Ida Laura	1855	Lady’s Second Journey Round the World Vol. 1 [36]
Pfeiffer	Ida Laura	1855	Lady’s Second Journey Round the World Vol. 2 [37]
Gomes	Edwin H.	1911	Seventeen years among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo; a record of intimate association with the natives of the Bornean jungles [38]
Gomes	Edwin H.	1912	Children of Borneo [39]
Dennison	Noel	1879	Jottings made during a tour amongst the Land Dyaks of upper Sarawak, Borneo, during the year 1874 [40]
Grant	Charles Thomas Constantine	1864	A tour amongst the Dyaks of Sarāwak (Borneo) in 1858 [41]
North	Marianne	1893	Recollections of a happy life : being the autobiography of Marianne North Vol. 1 [42]
North	Marianne	1893	Recollections of a happy life : being the autobiography of Marianne North Vol. 2 [43]
Baden-Powell	Baden	1892	In savage isles and settled lands. Malaysia, Australasia and Polynesia, 1888-1891 [44]
Wallace	Alfred Russel	1869	The Malay Archipelago : the land of the oranguatan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature [45]
Collingwood	Cuthbert	1868	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, etc., made in Her Majesty's vessels in 1866 and 1867 [46]
Beccari	Odoardo	1904	Wanderings in the great forests of Borneo; travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak [47]
St. John	James Augustus	1847	Views in the Eastern Archipelago : Borneo, Sarawak, Labuan, &c. [48]
Roth	Henry Ling	1896	Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo : based chiefly on the MSS. of the late Hugh Brooke Low, Sarawak Government Service Vol. 1 [49]
Roth	Henry Ling	1896	Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo : based chiefly on the MSS. of the late Hugh Brooke Low, Sarawak Government Service Vol. 2 [50]
Low	Hugh	1848	Sarawak; its inhabitants and productions: being notes during a residence in that country with His Excellency Mr. Brooke [51]
Hose	Charles	1912	The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations Vol. 1 [52]
Hose	Charles	1912	The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations Vol. 2 [53]
Keppel	Henry	1853	A visit to the Indian archipelago, in H.M. ship Mæander : with portions of the private journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. Vol 1 [54]
Keppel	Henry	1853	A visit to the Indian archipelago, in H.M. ship Mæander : with portions of the private journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. Vol 2 [55]
Keppel	Henry	1899	A sailor's life under four sovereigns Vol. 1 [56]
Keppel	Henry	1899	A sailor's life under four sovereigns Vol. 2 [57]
Keppel	Henry	1899	A sailor's life under four sovereigns Vol. 3 [58]
St. John	Spenser	1862	Life in the forests of the Far East Vol. 1 [59]
St. John	Spenser	1862	Life in the forests of the Far East Vol. 2 [60]
St. John	Spenser	1879	The Life of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak: From His Personal Papers and Correspondence [61]
St. John	Spenser	1899	Rajah Brooke: the Englishman as ruler of an eastern state [62]
Baring-Gould	Sabine	1909	A History of Sarawak under its Two White Rajahs, 1839-1908 [63]
Rutter	Edward Owen	1935	Rajah Brooke and Baroness Burdett Coutts : consisting of the letters / from Sir James Brooke, first white Rajah of Sarawak to Miss Angela (afterwards Baroness) Burdett Coutts, edited...by Owen Rutter [64]
Brooke	Margaret	1913	My life in Sarawak [65]
Green	Eda	1909	Borneo, the land of river and palm [66]
Bunyon	Charles John	1889	Memoirs of Francis Thomas McDougall ... sometime bishop of Labuan and Sarawak, and of Harriette, his wife [67]
Brassey	Anna	1887	The last voyage [68]
Runciman	Steven	1960	The White Rajahs: a History of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946 [69]
Treacher	William Hood	1891	British Borneo: sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo [70]

Colonial history – Malaya and Singapore

Author Last	Author First	Date	Title
Swettenham	Frank	1906	British Malaya [71]

World War 2 history

Author Last	Author First	Date	Title

Postwar modern history

Author Last	Author First	Date	Title

Politics and law

Author Last	Author First	Date	Title

Travel and tourism

Region	Author	Date	Title
Southeast Asia	George Windsor Earl	1837	The Eastern seas; or, Voyages and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832-33-34, comprising a tour of the island of Java -- visits to Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Siam &c [72]
Sarawak	Anna Brassey	1887	The last voyage [73]
Singapore & Sarawak	Cuthbert Collingwood	1868	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, etc., made in Her Majesty's vessels in 1866 and 1867 [74]
Sarawak	Ida Laura Pfeiffer	1855	Lady’s Second Journey Round the World Vol. 1 [75]
Sarawak	Frederick Boyle	1865	Adventures Among the Dyaks of Borneo [76]
Sarawak	Marianne North	1893	Recollections of a happy life : being the autobiography of Marianne North Vol. 1 [77]

References

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2. Hose, Charles (1912). The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations Vol. 2. Macmillan and Co.
3. Gomes, Edwin H. (1911). Seventeen years among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo; a record of intimate association with the natives of the Bornean jungles. Seeley.
4. Gomes, Edwin H. (1912). Seventeen years among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo; a record of intimate association with the natives of the Bornean jungles. Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier.
5. Dennison, Noel (1879). Jottings made during a tour amongst the Land Dyaks of upper Sarawak, Borneo, during the year 1874. Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier.
6. Roth, Henry Ling (1896). Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo : based chiefly on the MSS. of the late Hugh Brooke Low, Sarawak Government Service Vol. 1. Truslove & Comba.
7. Roth, Henry Ling (1896). Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo : based chiefly on the MSS. of the late Hugh Brooke Low, Sarawak Government Service Vol. 2. Truslove & Comba.
8. Wallace, Alfred Russell (1869). The Malay Archipelago : the land of the oranguatan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. Macmillan.
9. Beccari, Odoardo (1904). Wanderings in the great forests of Borneo; travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak. A. Constable & co., Ltd.
10. St. John, Horace (1853). The Indian Archipelago: Its History and Present State, Volume 1. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
11. St. John, Horace (1853). The Indian Archipelago: Its History and Present State, Volume 2. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
12. Keppel, Henry (1846). The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: Vol 1. Chapman and Hall.
13. Keppel, Henry (1846). The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: Vol 2. Chapman and Hall.
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15. Mundy, Rodney (1848). Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, down to the Occupation of Labuan: from the Journals of James Brooke, Esq. Vol. 1. John Murray.
16. Mundy, Rodney (1848). Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, down to the Occupation of Labuan: from the Journals of James Brooke, Esq. Vol. 1. John Murray.
17. Belcher, Edward (1848). Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, During the Years 1843-46; Employed surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago Vol. 1. Reeve, Benham and Reeve.
18. Belcher, Edward (1848). Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, During the Years 1843-46; Employed surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago Vol. 2. Reeve, Benham and Reeve.
19. Marryat, Frank (1848). Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with Drawings of Costume and Scenery. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.
20. McDougall, Harriette (1854). Letters from Sarawak; Addressed to a Child. Grant and Griffith.
21. McDougall, Harriette (1882). Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
22. Brooke, Charles (1866). Ten Years in Sarawak Vol. 1. Tinsley Brothers.
23. Brooke, Charles (1866). Ten Years in Sarawak Vol. 2. Tinsley Brothers.
24. Helms, Ludvig Verner (1882). Pioneering in the Far East. W.H. Allen.
25. Foggo, George (1853). Adventures of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., Rajah of Sarawak, "sovereign de facto of Borneo proper," late governor of Labuan : from Rajah Brooke's own diary and correspondence, or from government official documents. Effingham Wilson.
26. Templer, John C. (1853). The Private Letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. Rajah of Sarawak, Narrating the Events of his Life, from 1838 to the Present Time Vol. 1. Richard Bentley.
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28. Templer, John C. (1853). The Private Letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. Rajah of Sarawak, Narrating the Events of his Life, from 1838 to the Present Time Vol. 3. Richard Bentley.
29. Templer, John C. (1853). A Vindication of His Character and Proceedings: In Reply to the Statements Privately Printed and Circulated by Joseph Hume Esq. M.P. J. Ridgway.
30. Jacob, Gertrude L. (1876). The Raja of Sarawak: An Account of Sir James Brooke, given chiefly through Letters and Journals, in Two Volumes, Vol. I. Macmillan and Co.
31. Jacob, Gertrude L. (1876). The Raja of Sarawak: An Account of Sir James Brooke, given chiefly through Letters and Journals, in Two Volumes, Vol. II. Macmillan and Co.
32. Earl, George Windsor (1837). The Eastern seas; or, Voyages and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832-33-34, comprising a tour of the island of Java -- visits to Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Siam &c. Macmillan and Co.
33. St. John, Horace (1853). The Indian Archipelago: Its History and Present State, Volume 1. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
34. St. John, Horace (1853). The Indian Archipelago: Its History and Present State, Volume 2. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
35. Boyle, Frederick (1865). Adventures Among the Dyaks of Borneo. Hust and Blackett.
36. Pfeiffer, Ida Laura (1855). Lady’s Second Journey Round the World Vol. 1. Longman.
37. Pfeiffer, Ida Laura (1855). Lady’s Second Journey Round the World Vol. 2. Longman.
38. Gomes, Edwin H. (1911). Seventeen years among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo; a record of intimate association with the natives of the Bornean jungles. Seeley.
39. Gomes, Edwin H. (1912). Seventeen years among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo; a record of intimate association with the natives of the Bornean jungles. Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier.
40. Dennison, Noel (1879). Jottings made during a tour amongst the Land Dyaks of upper Sarawak, Borneo, during the year 1874. Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier.
41. Dennison, Noel (1864). A tour amongst the Dyaks of Sarāwak (Borneo) in 1858. Private.
42. North, Marianne (1893). Recollections of a happy life : being the autobiography of Marianne North Vol. 1. Macmillan.
43. North, Marianne (1893). Recollections of a happy life : being the autobiography of Marianne North Vol. 2. Macmillan.
44. Baden-Powell, Baden (1892). In savage isles and settled lands. Malaysia, Australasia and Polynesia, 1888-1891. Macmillan.
45. Wallace, Alfred Russell (1869). The Malay Archipelago : the land of the oranguatan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. Macmillan.
46. Wallace, Alfred Russell (1868). 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, etc., made in Her Majesty's vessels in 1866 and 1867. J. Murray.
47. Beccari, Odoardo (1904). Wanderings in the great forests of Borneo; travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak. A. Constable & co., Ltd.
48. St. John, James Augustus (1847). Views in the Eastern Archipelago : Borneo, Sarawak, Labuan, &c. A. Constable & co., Ltd.
49. Roth, Henry Ling (1896). Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo : based chiefly on the MSS. of the late Hugh Brooke Low, Sarawak Government Service Vol. 1. Truslove & Comba.
50. Roth, Henry Ling (1896). Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo : based chiefly on the MSS. of the late Hugh Brooke Low, Sarawak Government Service Vol. 2. Truslove & Comba.
51. Low, Hugh (1848). Sarawak; its inhabitants and productions: being notes during a residence in that country with His Excellency Mr. Brooke. Richard Bentley.
52. Hose, Charles (1912). The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations Vol. 1. Macmillan and Co.
53. Hose, Charles (1912). The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations Vol. 2. Macmillan and Co.
54. Keppel, Henry (1853). A visit to the Indian archipelago, in H.M. ship Mæander : with portions of the private journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. Vol 1. Richard Bentley.
55. Keppel, Henry (1853). A visit to the Indian archipelago, in H.M. ship Mæander : with portions of the private journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. Vol 2. Richard Bentley.
56. Keppel, Henry (1899). A sailor's life under four sovereigns Vol. 1. Macmillan and Co.Ltd.
57. Keppel, Henry (1899). A sailor's life under four sovereigns Vol. 2. Macmillan and Co.Ltd.
58. Keppel, Henry (1899). A sailor's life under four sovereigns Vol. 3. Macmillan and Co.Ltd.
59. St. John, Spenser (1862). Life in the forests of the Far East Vol. 1. Smith, Elder and Co.
60. St. John, Spenser (1862). Life in the forests of the Far East Vol. 2. Smith, Elder and Co.
61. St. John, Spenser (1879). The Life of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak: From His Personal Papers and Correspondence. W. Blackwood.
62. St. John, Spenser (1899). Rajah Brooke: the Englishman as ruler of an eastern state. Unwin.
63. Baring-Gould, Sabine; Bampfylde, C.A. (1909). A History of Sarawak under its Two White Rajahs, 1839-1908. Henry Sotheran and Co.
64. Rutter, Edward Owen (1935). Rajah Brooke and Baroness Burdett Coutts : consisting of the letters / from Sir James Brooke, first white Rajah of Sarawak to Miss Angela (afterwards Baroness) Burdett Coutts, edited...by Owen Rutter. Hutchinson.
65. Brooke, Margaret (1913). My life in Sarawak. Methuen & Co. Ltd.
66. Green, Eda (1909). Borneo, the land of river and palm. Borneo Mission Association.
67. Bunyon, Charles John (1889). Memoirs of Francis Thomas McDougall ... sometime bishop of Labuan and Sarawak, and of Harriette, his wife. Longmans, Green, and Co.
68. Brassey, Anna (1887). The last voyage. Longmans, Green, and Co.
69. Runciman, Steven (1887). The White Rajahs: a History of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946. Longmans, Green, and Co.
70. Treacher, William Hood (1897). The White Rajahs: a History of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946. Singapore Government Printing Department.
71. Swettenham, Frank (1906). British Malaya. Feorge Allen and Unwin Ltd.
72. Earl, George Windsor (1837). The Eastern seas; or, Voyages and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832-33-34, comprising a tour of the island of Java -- visits to Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Siam &c. Macmillan and Co.
73. Brassey, Anna (1887). The last voyage. Longmans, Green, and Co.
74. Wallace, Alfred Russell (1868). 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, etc., made in Her Majesty's vessels in 1866 and 1867. J. Murray.
75. Pfeiffer, Ida Laura (1855). Lady’s Second Journey Round the World Vol. 1. Longman.
76. Boyle, Frederick (1865). Adventures Among the Dyaks of Borneo. Hust and Blackett.
77. North, Marianne (1893). Recollections of a happy life : being the autobiography of Marianne North Vol. 1. Macmillan.