Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity

Author: Victoria Glendinning 
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 9781846686047
Weight: 0.311 kg
Pages: 350
Year: 2013
Price: RM62

IN 1819 SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES, without authority from London, raised the British flag on a small jungle-covered island and founded a settlement that would become the city-state of Singapore. It was the crowning moment in an extraordinary career in South - East Asia, which saw Raffles shake off his humble beginnings to become Lieutenant - Governor of Java. But his success in the tropics was overshadowed by professional conflict and personal tragedy. Acclaimed biographer Victoria Glendinning charts the extraordinary life of an English adventurer, a disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, naturalist, collector, and troublesome visionary.