The Duke of Puddle Dock: Travels in the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles (Penguin Travel Library)

by NigelBarley (Author), NigelBarley (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.25

  Sir Stamford Raffles is known as a man of the Empire, a reforming colonialist and prodigal adventurer. Yet his brilliant career proved to be brief. What happened? Nigel Barley set out to find the reasons as he travelled, literally and imaginatively, through the lands that Raffles had known almost 200 years earlier: from Malacca to Java, Bali to Singapore. Nigel Barley's book - part biography, part the experiences of a contemporary traveller - brings a modern sensibility to veer on a major historical figure. The author also wrote Native Land , A Plague of Caterpillars , Not a Hazardous Sport and The Coast .

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $5.87

  Born the son of an impoverished sea captain in 1781, Stamford Raffles worked his way up in the East India Company to become a minor official on the island of Penang. Out of the blue, he was appointed Governor of Java, and in 1819 he founded Singapore. Now Barley puts himself in Raffles' skin to offer this portrait. 16 pages of illustrations.