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Lion City: The life and legacy of Sir Stamford Raffles

By Mark Probert
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$16.99
By Mark Probert
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At fourteen, Thomas Stamford Raffles was a junior clerk. Before he was forty, he'd enabled Britain to take control of the world's most valuable trade route.
The Strait of Malacca: that narrow stretch of water where every cargo of Chinese tea, Indian opium, and Eastern spices passed between oceans. Whoever controlled this strait held power over the wealth of empires.
While rivals fought over established ports, Raffles saw what they missed. In 1819, risking official censure, he claimed a neglec...