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Raffles and the golden opportunity 1781-1826, Victoria Glendinning
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- Summary
- This is the first biography in decades of the 'Father of Singapore'. 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 1825, a year before his death. Raffles remains a controversial figure, and in the first biography for over forty years, Victoria Glendinning charts his prodigious rise within the social and historical contexts of his world. His domestic and personal life was vivid and shot through with tragedy. His own end was sad, though his fame immortal
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Raffles and the golden opportunity 1781-1826
- Title
- Raffles and the golden opportunity 1781-1826
- Statement of responsibility
- Victoria Glendinning
- Title variation
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- Seventeen eighty-one to eighteen twenty-six
- Raffles & the golden opportunity
- Raffles
- Subject
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- trueAdventurers
- trueBotony
- trueBritish in Singapore
- trueBritish in Singapore -- Biography
- trueBritish people in Asia
- trueBritish people in Singapore
- trueCity-states
- trueColonial administrators
- Colonial administrators -- Indonesia -- Biography
- trueColonial administrators -- Singapore
- trueColonialism
- trueEngland -- History
- trueEngland -- History -- 19th century
- trueExplorers
- Explorers -- Great Britain
- Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- trueImperialism, British
- trueImperialism, British -- History
- trueImperialism, British -- Singapore -- History
- Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir, 1781-1826
- trueSingapore
- trueSingapore -- History
- Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography
- trueZoology
- trueAdventurers -- Biography
- Biographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This is the first biography in decades of the 'Father of Singapore'. 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 1825, a year before his death. Raffles remains a controversial figure, and in the first biography for over forty years, Victoria Glendinning charts his prodigious rise within the social and historical contexts of his world. His domestic and personal life was vivid and shot through with tragedy. His own end was sad, though his fame immortal
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10171147
- Cataloging source
- UKMGB
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Glendinning, Victoria
- Dewey number
- 942.073092
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DS646.26.R3
- LC item number
- G64 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Raffles, Thomas Stamford
- Statesmen
- Colonial administrators
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Raffles and the golden opportunity 1781-1826, Victoria Glendinning
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-329) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 349 pages (some color)
- Isbn
- 9781846686030
- Lccn
- 2012517412
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- maps
- System control number
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- 797981046
- (OCoLC)797981046
- Label
- Raffles and the golden opportunity 1781-1826, Victoria Glendinning
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-329) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 349 pages (some color)
- Isbn
- 9781846686030
- Lccn
- 2012517412
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- maps
- System control number
-
- 797981046
- (OCoLC)797981046
Subject
- trueAdventurers
- trueBotony
- trueBritish in Singapore
- trueBritish in Singapore -- Biography
- trueBritish people in Asia
- trueBritish people in Singapore
- trueCity-states
- trueColonial administrators
- Colonial administrators -- Indonesia -- Biography
- trueColonial administrators -- Singapore
- trueColonialism
- trueEngland -- History
- trueEngland -- History -- 19th century
- trueExplorers
- Explorers -- Great Britain
- Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- trueImperialism, British
- trueImperialism, British -- History
- trueImperialism, British -- Singapore -- History
- Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir, 1781-1826
- trueSingapore
- trueSingapore -- History
- Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography
- trueZoology
- trueAdventurers -- Biography
- Biographies
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