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Raffles: The Definitive Biography
Maurice Collis
Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2009
ISBN: 9789812617736

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.

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