William Marsden

The History of Sumatra

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A late eighteenth-century account of Sumatra, (reissued here in its 1811 third edition) by an orientalist and public servant.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 542
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1389g
• ISBN-13: 9781108050487
• ISBN-10: 1108050484
• Artikelnr.: 35987073

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Situation
2. Distinction of inhabitants
3. Villages
4. Agriculture
5. Fruits, flowers, medicinal shrubs and herbs
6. Beasts
7. Vegetable productions of the island considered as articles of commerce
8. Gold, tin, and other metals
9. Languages
10. Comparative state of the Sumatrans in civil society
11. Remarks on, and elucidation of, the various laws and customs
12. Modes of marriage, and customs relative thereto
13. Custom of chewing betel
14. The country of Lampong and its inhabitants
15. Account of the inland country of Korinchi
16. Malayan states
17. Kingdoms of Indrapura, Anak-Sungei, Passamman, Siak
18. Kingdom of Achin
19. History of the kingdom of Achin
20. Brief account of the islands lying off the western coast of Sumatra
Index.