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Raffles - The Definitive Biography
Morris Collis
216 pages, 190 x 130 mm, ISBN - 9812180796
black & white photos
Price - S$15.00 Availability - in print
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Time and perspective have increased the stature of Sir Stamford Raffles, from whose work grew the modern Far East. Maurice Collis's biography gives both a clearer and more human portrayal of this great administrator, humanitarian, pioneer orientalist and collector of animals and plants.
"Admirers of Maurice Collis will be glad that Raffles should have him for a biographer. On every count of style, scholarship and humour, as well as for the justice done to a good and unusual man, this book stands high on the biographical scène." William Buchan The Spectator
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