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Raffles

And the Golden Opportunity

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Victoria Glendinning

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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 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. 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, but his fame immortal.

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Victoria Glendinning is a prize-winning biographer, the author of lives of Elizabeth Bowen, Vita Sackville-West, Edith Sitwell, Trollope and Leonard Woolf. She has also written three novels: The Grown-Ups, Electricity and Flight. She is a Vice- President of English PEN, Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature and was appointed CBE in 1998. Born in Yorkshire, she now lives in Somerset.

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August 1st, 2013

Author

Victoria Glendinning

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General (US: Trade)

Edition

Main

Illustrations

With colour and black and white illustrations

Pages

384

Dimensions

129x198x23

ISBN-13

9781846686047

Product ID

21211539

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