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Nature Reads: The Skeat Expedition’s Forgotten Stories
32 mins·15:00, 25 Aug 2025
Nature Reads: The Skeat Expedition’s Forgotten Stories
32 mins
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15:00, 25 Aug 2025
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Guest: Dylan Jefri Ong, Co-founder, Sunda Shelves, Katherine Enright, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
In our latest episode of Nature Reads, we travel back to 1899, when Cambridge anthropologist Walter William Skeat led a major scientific expedition to Malaya. The expedition didn’t just collect plants and animals; it also produced classic books on zoology, botany, and culture that continue to influence how we understand our natural history today. To guide us through this chapter, we’re joined by Katherine Enright, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, whose research looks at the politics and legacies of expeditions like Skeat’s. Together with co-host Dylan Jefri Ong, the co-founder of Sunda Shelves, we discuss the stories behind the books, the people, and the knowledge they preserved.
Nature Reads on Earth Matters is a monthly show where we explore the stories behind books that bring us closer to nature and the world around us, done in collaboration with Sunda Shelves, an independent bookstore and café with a passion for wild places and thoughtful reads.
Presenter: Juliet Jacobs
Producer: Juliet Jacobs
environmental communicationSkeat Expeditioncolonial scientific expeditionsthe bigger pictureearth mattersNature ReadsSunda Shelvesbooks on naturebooks on conservationnature literaturenature guide bookszoologybotanyanthropology
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