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The Resource Raffles and the golden opportunity 1781-1826, Victoria Glendinning

Raffles and the golden opportunity 1781-1826, Victoria Glendinning

Label
Raffles and the golden opportunity 1781-1826
Title
Raffles and the golden opportunity 1781-1826
Statement of responsibility
Victoria Glendinning
Title variation
  • Seventeen eighty-one to eighteen twenty-six
  • Raffles & the golden opportunity
  • Raffles
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
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
Writing style
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
  • 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
  • Raffles, Thomas Stamford
  • Statesmen
  • Colonial administrators
Target audience
adult
Label
Raffles and the golden opportunity 1781-1826, Victoria Glendinning
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
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
Label
Raffles and the golden opportunity 1781-1826, Victoria Glendinning
Publication
Copyright
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

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