Southeast Asian Visions
Southeast Asian Visions is a collection of European travel accounts about pre-modern Southeast Asia preserved in the John M. Echols Collection at Cornell University Library. This site provides online access to more than 350 books written in English and French. For more detailed information and access to this collection, please visit the collection homepage.
The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise
The expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the suppression of piracy
Travels in the East Indian Archipelago
A voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan
The Chersonese with the gilding off
A short account of the Prince of Wales's Island, or Pulo Peenang, in the East Indies
The images here are from 'The Malay Archipelago' by Alfred Russel Wallace, 'Travels in the East Indian Archipelago' by Albert S. Bickmore, 'A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Balambangan' by Thomas Forrest, 'The Chersonese with the Gilding Off, v.1' by Emily Innes, and 'A Short Account of the Prince of Wales's Island, or Pulo Peenang, in the East Indies' by Elisha Trapaud.