Author: FORBES, Henry O(gg).
Title: A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. A narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883.
Description: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1885. Original pictorial cloth gilt (extremities of spine damaged). With coloured frontispiece, 6 maps (3 folding), and many wood-engraved plates and illustrations. XIX,536 pp. First American edition. - The Scottish zoologist H.O. Forbes (1851-1932) travelled from the Keeling Islands through Indonesia between 1878-1883 visiting The Cocos Islands, West Java, South-Sumatra, Timor, Ambon, Larat (one of the Tanimbar Islandst), and Buru. Giving in addition to a general travel-account, special ethnographic information of the little known inhabitants of the Timor and the Tanimbar Islands. - Inside fine. Cat. KITLV I, p.6; Nissen ZBI 1408.

Keywords: Indonesia Indonesia ethnography Indonesia general Islands Lesser Sunda Islands Moluccas Timor indonesia exploration