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Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity [Audiobook] download free by Victoria Glendinning

Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity Audiobook download free by Victoria Glendinning
  • Listen audiobook: Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity
  • Author: Victoria Glendinning
  • Release date: 2013/11/5
  • Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS LTD
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Biography
  • ISBN: 9781846686047
  • Rating: 7.12 of 10
  • Votes: 313
  • Review by: Hattie Jenkins
  • Review rating: 8.52 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/10/7
  • Duration: 4H52M49S in 256 kbps (76.8 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-01
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, Apple Lossless, MPEG4, MP4 (compression XZ, ZIP, BZ2, RAR)
  • Total pages original book: 384
  • Includes a PDF summary of 34 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 24M49S (6.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Asian History, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, Colonialism & Imperialism, Biography: Historical, Political & Military
  • Download servers: MEGA, Mediafire, 1337x, Uploaded, Google Drive. Compressed in XZ, ZIP, BZ2, RAR
  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 13.19 USD
  • Dimensions: 129x198x23mm
  • Weight: 319g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: London, United Kingdom

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