Tales of the Malayan Coast: From Penang to the Philippines (Illustrated) - Softcover

Wildman, Rounsevelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1537019899 ISBN 13: 9781537019895

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

These stories are the result of nine years’ residence and experience on the Malayan coast—that land of romance and adventure which the ancients knew as the Golden Chersonesus, and which, in modern times, has been brought again into the atmosphere of valor and performance by Rajah Brooke of Sarawak, the hero of English expansion, and Admiral George Dewey of the Asiatic squadron, the hero of American achievement. The author, in his official duties as Special Commissioner of the United States for the Straits Settlement and Siam, and, later, as Consul General of the United States at Hong Kong, has mingled with and studied the diverse people of the Malayan coast, from the Sultan of Johore and Aguinaldo the Filipino to the lowest Eurasian and “China boy” of that wonderful Oriental land. These stories are based on his experiences afloat and ashore, and are offered to the American public at this time when all glimpses of the land that Columbus sailed to find are of especial interest to the modern possessors of the land he really did discover.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1537019899
• ISBN 13: 9781537019895
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174
• Illustrator: Sandham Henry