Author : Saul Rose
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396367816
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (678 download)
Book Synopsis Britain and South-East Asia (Classic Reprint) by : Saul Rose
Download or read book Britain and South-East Asia (Classic Reprint) written by Saul Rose and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Britain and South-East Asia During its long history the crossroads has seen a great deal of traffic. Although the discovery of Java Man - the remains of the earliest known form of human being - suggests that it was one of the birthplaces of mankind, the region has been moulded largely by external forces., 'f or thousands of years successive waves of migrants moved down from the Asian continent towards the south, driven by the hostility of nature or their neighbours, or perhaps drawn by the warmth and luxuriance of the tropics. They made their way from the interior of the heartland down towards the Malay peninsula, some settling, some moving on along the island chain that constitutes Indonesia, until they reached the Philippines or even Australia. The last major influx occurred some years ago with the arrival of the people who still constitute what may be described as the basic population of the area - the Malaysians but they were not very numerous. Although the mountain ranges run broadly north and south, the broken terrain and the dense malarial jungles impeded movement, and the migrations were a trickle rather than a flood. In comparison with India and China the region remained thinly populated until the fairly recent prolifera tion in Java. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.