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This thorough and dryly entertaining biography of Sir Stamford Raffles teems with intrigue, petty bureaucratic back-biting, and schemes large and small to gain wealth, fame, and a toehold in history.
I confess that until recently the only “Raffles” that I knew about was the fictional thief and “amateur cracksman” of that name in the E.W. Hornung stories written at the turn of the 20th century. I was surprised, then, to find numerous references to an entirely different Raffles in a book I was re ...more
I confess that until recently the only “Raffles” that I knew about was the fictional thief and “amateur cracksman” of that name in the E.W. Hornung stories written at the turn of the 20th century. I was surprised, then, to find numerous references to an entirely different Raffles in a book I was re ...more
