Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 30, No. 2 (July 2009)

In assembling with rare balance a rich quantity of empirical material and analyzing it with exemplary insight, Cramb has not only produced a definitive text on a key geographical and cultural domain of the Southeast Asian realm, but also contributed immensely to the ongoing debate about ‘development’.

In assembling with rare balance a rich quantity of empirical material and analyzing it with exemplary insight, Cramb has not only produced a definitive text on a key geographical and cultural domain of the Southeast Asian realm, but also contributed immensely to the ongoing debate about ‘development’. Land and Longhouse can be considered a masterpiece, the magnum opus of a long distance researcher.