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Auteur(s) : Glendinning, Victoria
Titre(s) : Raffles and the golden opportunity 1781-1826 [Texte imprimé] / Victoria Glendinning
Publication : London : Profile books, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvii, 349 p.) : cartes ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-329) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Raffles, Thomas Stamford (1781-1826)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781846686030. - ISBN 1846686032. - ISBN 9781781250259. - ISBN 1781250251. -
ISBN 9781846686047. - ISBN 1846686040. - ISBN 9781847658241 (erroné) (ebook). - ISBN
1847658245 (erroné) (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45172923d
Notice n° :
FRBNF45172923
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Table des matières : 1. The boy from Walworth and the Circassian bride ; 2. Great expectations ; 3.
Rising on the thermals ; 4. All roads are long that lead to one's heart's desire
; 5. The Lieutenant-Governor of Java ; 6. Too sensational ; 7. Theatre of shadows
; 8. She is devotedly attached to me ; 9. Sir Stamford Raffles ; 10. The golden
opportunity ; 11. Founding father ; 12. My almost only child ; 13. Fame in flames
; 14. Endgame ; 15. What happened to the others?
