The Annotated Malay Archipelago (PB)

The book famously raises provocative questions, but did tigers actually kill on an average a Chinaman every day?? in Singapore during the 1850s? Did a Dutch Governor General really commit suicide by leaping from a waterfall in Celebes? Iohn van Wyhe deals with these and many other matters by comparing the text of The Malay Archipelago with Wallace letters, notebooks and a wealth of other contemporary sources.