In A Corner of Asia – Sir Hugh Clifford (1925) (2nd edition)

S$86.00

In A Corner of Asia – Sir Hugh Clifford (1925) (2nd edition)

S$86.00

Title: In a Corner of Asia: Being Tales and Impressions of Men and Things in the Malay Peninsula

Author: Sir Hugh Clifford

Publisher: T Fisher Unwin, 1925. Stated second edition.

Condition: Hardcover. Good. Book well-bound. Slight rubbing and staining to cover, and foxing to edges. Ffep missing, and large inscriptions and a pencil line to half-title page, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Patterned endpapers. Pocket size, 252pp.

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About the author (from Wikipedia):

Hugh Clifford intended to follow his father, a distinguished colonial general, into the British Army, but later decided to join the civil service in the Straits Settlements, with the assistance of his relative Sir Frederick Weld, the then Governor of the Straits Settlements and also the British High Commissioner in Malaya. He was later transferred to the British Protectorate of the Federated Malay States. Clifford arrived in Malaya in 1883, aged 17.

He first became a cadet in the State of Perak. During his twenty years in Perak, Clifford socialised with the local Malays and studied their language and culture deeply. He served as British Resident at Pahang, 1896–1900 and 1901–1903, and Governor of North Borneo, 1900–1901.

In 1903, he left Malaya to take the post of Colonial Secretary of Trinidad. Later he was appointed Governor of the Gold Coast, 1912–1919, Nigeria, 1919–1925, and Ceylon, 1925–1927. He continued to write stories and novels about Malayan life. His last posting was as Governor of the Straits Settlements and British High Commissioner in Malaya from 1927 until 1930. He wrote Farther India, which chronicles European explorations and discoveries in Southeast Asia.