Project Gutenburg
 

Project Gutenburg is a source that may be helpful to some of us here looking for older books about the places the swords we study come from.

Here are just a couple of the titles there

Through Central Borneo:
An Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters
Between the Years 1913 and 1917

Author: Carl Lumholtz

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8born10.txt

Wallace, Alfred Russel,
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/1malay10.txt

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures

Author: J.H. Patterson 1907

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/tsavo10.txt

Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet.

Captain Knight 1860
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/dpcat10.txt

Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

Fa-Hien (AD 519 ? Translated 1886)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2124/2124-h/2124-h.htm

History of the Philippine Islands Vols 1 and 2

Antonio de Morga ( 1609 ?? Translated and published in English 1904 )

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/7phip10.txt

The Bontoc Igorot
Albert Ernest Jenks
Manila 1905
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3308/3308-h/3308-h.htm



Just a taste there are many more, Unfortunately many ( but not all )of them are text only and the illustrations have not been included. Still interesting stuff. I hope they help someone here

This one with some illustrations. :)

The History of Sumatra
Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And
Manners Of The Native Inhabitants

by Marsden, William, 1754-1836

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16768