This entertaining anthology contains 100 passages describing the impressions and experiences of a wide variety of authors who visited Malaya during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ranging from Munsyi Abdullah's description of Thomas Stamford Raffles's stay in Melaka to thereminiscences of an expatriate headmaster, the passages are grouped by topic and chronologically arranged to give a fascinating insight into the jungles, cities, people, culture, and history of this exotic country.