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Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendinning
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the founder of Singapore and Governor of Java, having left school in his early teens to become a clerk for the British East India Company. Charismatic and daring, Raffles forged an extraordinary path for himself in South East Asia - refus ...Show more
Raffles and the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendinning
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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 ...Show more
Raffles and the Golden Opportunity 1781-1826 by Victoria Glendinning
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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 ...Show more
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville West by Victoria Glendinning (Foreword by)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Ser.
Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghur ...Show more
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