Henry Morton Stanley is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, explorers of Dark Africa. He is famous for his first words in his…
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Reversing the Gaze
I wish I had read this interesting diary earlier. Bought in 2009 from Popular Gurney Paragon, Penang this is a diary of the first 8…
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The English Patient
The English Patient is a wonderfully crafted novel of love. The English Patient is a famous novel that won the Booker Prize for Michael Ondaatje.…
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Out in the Midday Sun
This history of the British in Malaya 1880- 1960 is wonderfully evocative. Margaret Shennan has an excellent command of the sources. This wonderful book is…
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12 days of Christmas
Advent is the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas. It is a time to prepare spiritually for Christmas. It leads to Christmas Eve, Christmas Day,…
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Missee
Margaret Shennan is justly known as the author of Out in the Midday Sun – The British in Malaya 1880 – 1960. Born in Kuching,…
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Cameron Highlands – Part 4
Nothing like starting this memoir of life in Mittel Europa at 7 am 16 degrees Celcius, Cameron Highlands Resort, 23 December 2021. Travel writing is…
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A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
This is the best-loved of Charles Dicken’s three Christmas Books. My Boxing Day reading. This carol in prose implied the two main protagonists are Jews.…
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To walk in Beauty: Cameron Highlands – Part 3
A walk along Griddle Road encircling the Tanah Rata golf course is therapeutic. The greens, the quietness, the hills, and clouds at the far horizon…
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Lakehouse Cameron Highlands – Part 2
The late Colonel Forster owned the Lakehouse and Ye Olde Smokehouse. These two hotels and YTL Cameron Highlands Resort by the Golf Course, are the…
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