The Earl of Cranbrook prefaces this edition: ‘The Malay Archipelago is a work of astounding breadth and originality that chronicles the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace’s scientific exploration of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and New Guinea between 1854 and 1862. He earned his living collecting bird skins, but took time to catalogue the vast number of [...]
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The late Dr Steiner, a distinguished Swiss medical practitioner, made many trips to Sarawak and Sabah from 1992 to study the pitcher plants in these parts of Borneo. The results of these studies were published in 2002 in a book ‘Borneo: Its Mountains and Lowlands with Their Pitcher Plants’. These treks gave the author and [...] 
The Pitcher Plants of what is now Indonesia. 430 pages, hardback In Stock. Free postage within Malaysia 
This is the first retrospective written by landscape architeclt and designer Made Wijaya about his own garden designs, the inspiration behind his work, and the various styles he has adopted as his own. These “Collections”, as he calls them have transforined the Bali Hyatt, Amandari, Four Seasons Resort, jimbaran, and more than 400 gardens [...] 
Coelogyne is a large genus of Asiatic orchids widely distributed from India and Sri Lanka across southern Asia and the Malaya Archipelago to the Philippines, New Guinea and the south-west Pacific Islands. The genus, as currently conceived, comprises some 190 species, two subspecies and 12 varieties. This account, the first for over 90 years [...] 
Pocket guide to the pitcher plants (Nepenthes) found in Sarawak
An account of how the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM) helped the Malaysian Airports Board to create at least some semblance of a rain forest around the terminal buildings of Kuala Lumpur International Airport at Sepang 
Pr0ceedings of the November 1999 Discussion Meeting at the Royal Society London of the progress of the SE Asia Rain Forest Research Programme of the Society, mostly concerning work at Danum valley, Sabah, Malaysia. This is the 2nd Discussion Meeting (the 1st was in 1991, and there was a 3rd in Bali in 2010, the [...] 
Proceedings of a conference in Oxford UK in 2001 giving a comprehensive overview of tropical forest canopy science up to that time. 29 papers. Supported by the Royal Society of London and the European Science Foundation 
Tropical gardens are a challenge and often a delight. Here is a chance to get some ideas |
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