Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity

Fine/Fine. First Edition Hardcover. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with the tiniest of nicks to spine foot. 349pp. The story of Sir Stamford Raffles, born 1781, 'an English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist, civil servant and troublesome visionary'. He hoisted the British flag on a small jungle covered island - which would beome the city-state of Singapore and became Governor of Java. ISBN 1846686032