Modern Malay

Published in 1928, this work offers a broad overview of the Malay Peninsula. It examines the land and its physical features, the region's past, its legal system and system of government, and the problems it faced at the time. A considerable share of the text is given over to the Malay people themselves.

The author, L. Richmond Wheeler, has traveled extensively across the world and lived in Malaya for seven years. His extensive research is combined with firsthand experience and close observation, and the result is a book that reads as smoothly as its subject matter suggests.