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Author: John Dodd Publisher: Monsoon Books ISBN: 1912049112 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 396
Book Description
Through a collection of letters written to his best friend and to his father in England, and from his own personal diary entries, John Dodd’s memoir offers a fascinating and amusing glimpse of life as a colonial rubber planter. With true stories and confessions that would make even Somerset Maugham blush, we discover what life was really like for young colonial planters in late-1950s Malaya. Increasing daily rubber output may have been their goal but for the young planters the bigger picture of chasing girls and finding a ‘keep’ was of much greater importance. But life was more than just a series of stengahs in the clubhouse, dalliances in the Chinese brothels of Penang and charming ‘pillow dictionaries’ – there were strikes, riots, snakes, plantation fires and deadly ambushes by Communist terrorists to contend with. Set against the backdrop of the Emergency period, the rise of nationalism and Malaya’s subsequent Independence, A Company of Planters is a very personal, moving and humorous account of one man’s experiences on the frequently isolated rubber plantations of colonial Malaya.
Author: John Dodd Publisher: Monsoon Books ISBN: 1912049112 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 396
Book Description
Through a collection of letters written to his best friend and to his father in England, and from his own personal diary entries, John Dodd’s memoir offers a fascinating and amusing glimpse of life as a colonial rubber planter. With true stories and confessions that would make even Somerset Maugham blush, we discover what life was really like for young colonial planters in late-1950s Malaya. Increasing daily rubber output may have been their goal but for the young planters the bigger picture of chasing girls and finding a ‘keep’ was of much greater importance. But life was more than just a series of stengahs in the clubhouse, dalliances in the Chinese brothels of Penang and charming ‘pillow dictionaries’ – there were strikes, riots, snakes, plantation fires and deadly ambushes by Communist terrorists to contend with. Set against the backdrop of the Emergency period, the rise of nationalism and Malaya’s subsequent Independence, A Company of Planters is a very personal, moving and humorous account of one man’s experiences on the frequently isolated rubber plantations of colonial Malaya.
Author: Boris Hembry Publisher: Monsoon Books ISBN: 9814358304 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
A true story of 1930s Malaysia, of jungle operations, submarines and spies in WWII, and of the postwar Malayan Emergency, as experienced by an extraordinary man. Rubber planter Boris Hembry was a part of Freddy Spencer Chapman’s covert Stay Behind Party in Japanese-occupied Malaya, a member of the Secret Intelligence Service, and he formed the first Home Guard unit in Malaya during the Emergency. Required reading for this period of Southeast Asian history.
Author: Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle Publisher: ISBN: Category : Georgetown County (S.C.) Languages : en Pages : 486
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A collection of Pringle's weekly columns in the New York Sun. Her father had been a governor and a rice planter in Georgetown County, South Carolina. Her family spent summers on Pawley's Island and owned the Nathaniel Russell House in Charleston.
Author: David W. Galenson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521894142 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 252
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This book explores the operation of the Atlantic slave trade industry in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, focusing on the market behaviour of the Royal African Company - the largest English company engaged in the slave trade - and the sugar planters of the Caribbean.
Author: Bruce A. Ragsdale Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780945612407 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 328
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This exciting reinterpretation of the path to Revolution follows Virginia planters' attempts to break with England and shows how their grassroots effort at self-sufficiency solidified into political resistance, war, and independence.
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