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Trama e riassunto di Racconti della costa malese da Penang alle Filippine
- 8 min di lettura
- 10 key ideas
- Audio a breve
A four-year-old boy walks off with a tiger in the Malayan jungle, and the consul follows with a rifle.
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Racconti della costa malese da Penang alle Filippine in breve
Riassunto: 8 min di lettura
- Tempo di lettura
- Circa 3 h 25 min2 h 45 min fast, 4 h 5 min slow
- Durata
- 49.100 parole
- Livello nella biblioteca
- Medio longer sentences, everyday words
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1899by Rounsevelle Wildman
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Racconti della costa malese da Penang alle Filippine in short
Tales of the Malayan Coast is a set of tales and sketches drawn from the author's years as an American consul in Singapore and the region around it. Some pieces are comic, such as Baboo and the tiger, the monkey Lepas and the castaway picnic. Others are portraits, such as the White Rajah of Sarawak and the Sultan of Johore.
What Racconti della costa malese da Penang alle Filippine is about
What would you do if your four-year-old son walked off with a tiger? That scene sets the tone for a collection of comedy, danger and close observation.
Rounsevelle Wildman spent nine years on the Malayan coast. He served as United States commissioner for the Straits Settlements and Siam, and later as consul general at Hong Kong. He died in 1901. Tales of the Malayan Coast gathers the stories and sketches that grew from those years. You will meet a naughty child, a White Rajah, a thieving monkey and a sailor's pirate fight.
A chi è rivolto. This book is for readers who love tropical adventure, colonial Singapore, jungle hunts, pirate yarns and the daily customs of Malay villages, in the spirit of Kipling or Stevenson.
The 10 key ideas
Key idea 1 · free to read
A small boy leads a tiger astray
The first tale, Baboo's Good Tiger, introduces a four-year-old who keeps vanishing from a bungalow near Singapore. He is the son of Aboo Din, the groom. Baboo is bare, brown and cheerful, and he meets every scolding by announcing that he is very bad.
One morning the cry goes up that a tiger has eaten the family dog and taken the child. Aboo Din thrusts a rifle into the consul's hands, and the men cut a path through thick jungle. On wet ground they find tiger prints. Beside them are a child's bare footprints, spaced as far apart as a man's stride. The consul laughs, because the prints prove the boy is alive.
Baboo is soon found among the mangrove roots. He found a big cat asleep, offered to show it his doll, and caught its tail when it ran. A child who fears only a whipping can walk through terror that would stop a man.
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Baboo's pirates are not what they seem
In the second tale, Baboo is six.
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Playing Robinson Crusoe on a lighthouse rock
How We Played Robinson Crusoe takes the author and his wife to Raffles Lighthouse, two hours south of Singapore.
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The sarong and the kris explain a people
Two short essays turn on objects.
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A young Englishman becomes the White Rajah
The sketch The White Rajah of Borneo begins in Singapore, where a salute of seventeen guns announces Sir Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak.
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Amok shows what a wedding can break
The tale Amok begins with a warning.
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Lepas the monkey is trouble in a sarong
Lepas's Revenge is a comic tale of a pet monkey.
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Mount Ophir carries a story of gold and betrayal
King Solomon's Mines follows the author and the Chief Justice of Maur up a mountain they believe is the Ophir of the Bible.
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Village life and a monsoon night on the coast
Busuk follows a girl from her birth in a fishing village to her marriage at fifteen.
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Courts, cities and a sailor's pirate yarn
A Pig Hunt describes a day of shooting wild pigs with Royal Artillery officers and native beaters.
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Domande su Racconti della costa malese da Penang alle Filippine
What is Tales of the Malayan Coast about?
It is a collection of tales and sketches set in Singapore, Johore, Borneo and the Malay Peninsula. It covers jungle hunts, pirates, village weddings, royal courts, a comic monkey and the legend of Mount Ophir.
Who is Baboo in this book?
Baboo is the small son of Aboo Din, the consul's groom. He appears in two tales, where his boldness and cunning carry him through a tiger encounter and a night of imagined pirates.
What is a kris and a sarong?
A kris is the snake-shaped Malay dagger, often with a wavy blade and a carved handle. A sarong is the checked tube of cloth worn as a skirt and belt. The author calls both distinctly Malay.
Are these stories true or fiction?
The pieces mix memoir, travel sketch and storytelling. Wildman draws on nine years of life on the Malayan coast, and the book presents its scenes as personal experience and local lore.
Is Tales of the Malayan Coast easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that matters. The pieces are short and separate, the voice is lively and humorous, and each one can be read on its own, so you can dip in anywhere.
Cita questa edizione
Wildman, Rounsevelle. Tales of the Malayan Coast from Penang to the Philippines. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-of-the-malayan-coast-from-penang-to-the-philippines.
Wildman, R. (2026). Tales of the Malayan coast from Penang to the Philippines. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-of-the-malayan-coast-from-penang-to-the-philippines (Original work published 1899)
Wildman, Rounsevelle. Tales of the Malayan Coast from Penang to the Philippines. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-of-the-malayan-coast-from-penang-to-the-philippines.
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note = {First published 1899}
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