Raffles. And The Golden Opportunity

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Profile
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 350 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 carved an extraordinary (though brief) life for himself in South East Asia. The tropical, disease-ridden settings of his story are as dramatic as his own trajectory - an obscure young man with no advantages other than talent and obsessive drive, who changed history by establishing - without authority - on the wretchedly unpromising island of Singapore, a settlement which has become a world city. After a turbulent time in the East Indies, Raffles returned to the UK and turned to his other great interests - botany and zoology. He founded London Zoo in 1826, the year of his death.

ISBN: 9781781250259