Works of fiction/history?

Seerp Visser · 26th July 2017, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Rick

That one sounds interesting, Colin.
You can get Raffles' History of Java free as a kindle download, but it is unreadable unfortunately.

Look for "History of Java" at archive.org, they offer a number of copies from different editons, free to read and download.
Special the first edition of 1817 is of very good quality with beautiful drawings.

A. G. Maisey · 26th July 2017, 10:19 PM

I have an Oxford in Asia reprint, two vols., cased, 1978

It does contain a lot of statistics on commerce, production, trade, but it also contains a lot of very interesting information. Even though it was written in the first quarter of the 19th century, it is easy, maybe very easy to read. The style is not at all academic, and print size is such that if you speed read it is very easy to scan. I have seen this reprint come up for sale from time to time, it is expensive, but not prohibitive.

26th July 2017, 10:19 PM	#2
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 6,992	I have an Oxford in Asia reprint, two vols., cased, 1978 It does contain a lot of statistics on commerce, production, trade, but it also contains a lot of very interesting information. Even though it was written in the first quarter of the 19th century, it is easy, maybe very easy to read. The style is not at all academic, and print size is such that if you speed read it is very easy to scan. I have seen this reprint come up for sale from time to time, it is expensive, but not prohibitive.