Raffles and the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendinning

Raffles and the Golden Opportunity

Victoria Glendinning

352 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
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Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil servant, he...

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