Books

Book Corner

While visiting the Sun Yat Sen Museum, enrich your knowledge by browsing the display of books published by Areca Books, a niche publisher specialising in cultural heritage, social history, visual arts and the environment.

***These books all have links to the products and thumbnails on arecabooks.com but the links are all broken – possibly they were from the previous version of the arecabooks.com website***

The following books are published by Areca Books:

2014

The Chulia in Penang  by Khoo Salma Nasution

The White Crocodile’s Tales :My Memoirs by J.M.B. Hughes

Rumah: An Ode to the Malay House by Tenas Effendy

Plague Fighter: The autobiography of a modern Chinese physician by Wu Lien-Teh

Living Pathways: Meditations on Sustainable Cultures and Cosmologies in Asia  by M. Nadarajah

Living Landscapes, Connected Communities: Culture, Environment and Change Across Asia by Justine Vaz & Narumol Aphinives

2013

Penang Hokkien Dictionary (English-Hokkien)  by Luc de Gijzel

My Days in the Sun  by Mark Soo

Penang: The Fourth Presidency of India 1805-1830, Volume One: Ships, Men and Mansions  by Marcus Langdon

2012

Streets of George Town, An Illustrated Guide to Penang’s City Streets and Historic Attractions  by Khoo Salma Nasution

2011

Portraits of Penang: Little India by Ooi Cheng Ghee

Heritage Trees of Penang  by Simon Gardner, Pindar Sidisunthorn and Lai Ee May

2010

The Sara Saga  by Manicasothy Saravanamuttu

Giving Our Best: The Story of St George’s Girls’ School, Penang, 1885-2010 by Khoo Salma Nasution, Alison Hayes & Sehra Yeap Zimbulis

Hail, Penang! Being the Narrative of Comedies and Tragedies in a Tropical Outpost, Among Europeans, Chinese, Malays and Indians  by George Bilainkin

2008

Sun Yat Sen In Penang (Simplified Chinese Version) byKhoo Salma Nasution

Sun Yat Sen in Penang (Traditional Chinese Version) by Khoo Salma Nasution

Sun Yat Sen in Penang by Khoo Salma Nasution

2007

Tulila: Muzik Bujukan Mandailing  by Edi Nasution

Road To Dawn: Filming in Penang  by Goh Mai Loon & Khoo Salma Nasution

Days Gone By: Growing Up in Penang  by Christine Wu Ramsay

2006

Penang Trams, Trolley Buses and Railways  by Ric Francis & Colin Ganley  Malaysian National Book Council’s ‘50 Best Malaysian Titles for 2011’

Penang La Porte des Secrets  by Julia de Bierre & James Bain Smith  Malaysian National Book Council’s ’50 Best Malaysian Titles for 2011′

Penang Through Gilded Doors  by Julia de Bierre & James Bain Smith Malaysian National Book Council’s ‘50 Best Malaysian Titles for 2011′

More Than Merchants: A History of the German-speaking Community in Penang 1800s-1940s 
by Khoo Salma Nasution 
Malaysian National Book Council’s ‘50 Best Malaysian Titles for 2011’

2003

Penang Postcard Collection: 1899-1930s 
by Khoo Salma Nasution & Malcolm Wade