Camping and Tramping in Malaya: Fifteen Years' in the Native States of the Malay Peninsula (Stanfords Travel Classics) Tapa blanda - 2015

John Beaufoy Publishing, 2016-03-31. Paperback. New.

John Beaufoy Publishing, 2016-03-31. Paperback. Like New.

United Kingdom.: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd.. 2015.. Maps, black and white illustrations, 211pp, a very good paperback copy. "Ambrose Rathborne was an Australian mining engineer who moved first to Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) as a coffee planter, and then in the 1880s to the Malay States, where he worked as a planter and entrepreneur. Camping and Tramping in Malaya: Fifteen Years in the Native States of the Malay Peninsula was first published in 1898, and is a lively and entertaining account of the author's travels, with fascinating insights into the colonial personalities and working conditions of the day. An urge to find his own nirvana in the hills for planting Arabica coffee evidently drove Rathborne's initial years in Malaya, and his chief legacy is his role in surveying for the alignments of the first long-distance roads in Malaysia. As Malaysia develops and matures as a nation state, interest will surely grow in its early formative years. Rathborne's Camping and Tramping is an excellent… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Oxford, UK: John Beaufoy Publising, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. New. A lively account of an Australian entrepreneur's experiences in Malaya at the end of the 19th century. Although he tried his hand at coffee planting, his main legacy is his contribution to establishing the country's original trunk roads for which he carried out much of the original survey work. New Paperback. Reprint. Originally published in 1898. 210 pages. Weight: 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia