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Book Synopsis Malacca Reminiscences by : Andrew Loh
Download or read book Malacca Reminiscences written by Andrew Loh and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malacca Reminiscences My Story is a memoir of a resident of Malacca in the five decades after independence in 1957 of Malaysia from Britain. Most books on Malacca hark back to the fifteenth century and the era of Parameswara founding the Sultanate of Malacca, but very little on the modern events that have shaped Malacca to become very different from the sleepy hollow that it was. The book captures the spirit of such a modern and vitalized city that has gained world heritage status. While many tourists from overseas and other parts of Malaysia visit Malacca for a few days or a week, they walk the streets of the town without understanding the layers of history that are hidden under these streets. While describing the streets, the bridges, the foods and eateries, the antiques shops, and the nooks and corners of the town, I have woven bits and pieces of my experiences as a resident of the town, born and bred since the 1950s. It is not a memoir per se but a tapestry of the story of Malacca stitched with anecdotes of personalities and ordinary folk of the town in the last fifty years. A Malacca street like Heeren Street has many secrets to unfold, and every house or building along this famous street has a worthy story to tell. It would be impossible to dig into the details of every house, but the mansions of the rich and famous towkays will be told. In short, this book of about 150 pages will paint Malacca in colors that are different from the average travel book from Lonely Planet or Fordor, which are compendiums about cities but do not touch the heart of the matter. I have been influenced by the travel writings of Peter Jenkins and Bill Bryson, whose travel books breathe life into the places they write about. I invite you to view Malacca through the panorama that I have personally tried to portray about my city, Malacca. I have interspersed cameos of notable citizens of the city who have contributed to its development. Interesting snippets about my family and myself have been inserted in relevant chapters of the book. I have added some tables of statistics about people and places culled from my daily visits to the Internet. You will get an insight into how a new Malacca has arisen over the ancient town of the days of the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the British. The new commercial heart of the town, Melaka Raya, and the adjoining malls of Dataran Pahlawan and Mahkota Parade are just a stones throw from the A Famosa Gateway. You will get an account of the stalled Gateway Island project, said to cost 40 billion ringgit, a small version of Dubais dazzling reclaimed island development. Napoleon is said to have derided Britain as a nation of shopkeepers. I will describe Malacca today as a city of hotels. This is not an overstatement, and my book will show you why.
Book Synopsis Malacca Reminiscences by : Andrew Loh
Download or read book Malacca Reminiscences written by Andrew Loh and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Malacca Memories by : Fanny Shellabear Blasdell
Download or read book Malacca Memories written by Fanny Shellabear Blasdell and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reminiscences of the Straits Settlements Through Postcards by : Arkib Negara Malaysia
Download or read book Reminiscences of the Straits Settlements Through Postcards written by Arkib Negara Malaysia and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memories of a Malaccan by : Audrey Lim
Download or read book Memories of a Malaccan written by Audrey Lim and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Auto-biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow ... including reflections, observations and reminiscences at home and abroad, from early life to advanced age. [With a portrait.] by : Sir John Barrow
Download or read book An Auto-biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow ... including reflections, observations and reminiscences at home and abroad, from early life to advanced age. [With a portrait.] written by Sir John Barrow and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of Malacca by : Allein G. Moore
Download or read book The Story of Malacca written by Allein G. Moore and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a gap of fifty years between the last book on the history of Malacca and this one written by Allein G Moore. Sultans and Spices, Guns and Greed, Race and Religion: The Story of Malacca will be valuable not only to a visitor to this historic city but will also inspire pride in Malaysians for it is also the story of the birth and growth of a nation. Allein takes the reader on a comprehensive but easy-to-read journey from its beginnings as a sleepy coastal fishing village on the west coast of Malaysia to its development into one of the most important trading centres in the world. The author brings to life the events and individuals who helped created Malacca in the long distant past and in more recent years. This book grew out of his own personal curiosity, and he writes not only to tell visitors more about his home town but also to inspire Malaccans to love and preserve their heritage.
Book Synopsis Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011: The making of the Luso-Asian world, intricacies of engagement by : Laura Jarnagin
Download or read book Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011: The making of the Luso-Asian world, intricacies of engagement written by Laura Jarnagin and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years later, a conference held in Singapore brought together a large group of scholars from widely different national, academic and disciplinary contexts, to analyse and discuss the intricate consequences of Portuguese interactions in Asia over the longue duree. The result of these discussions is a stimulating set of case studies that, as a rule, combine original archival and/or field research with innovative historiographical perspectives. Luso-Asian communities, real and imagined, and Luso-Asian heritage, material and symbolic, are studied with depth and insight. The range of thematic, chronological and geographic areas covered in these proceeding is truly remarkable, showing not only the extraordinary relevance of revisiting Luso-Asian interactions in the longer term, but also the surprising dynamism within an area of studies which seemed on the verge of exhaustion. After all, archives from all over the world, from Rio de Janeiro to London, from Lisbon to Rome, and from Goa to Macao, might still hold some secrets on the subject of Luso-Asian relations, when duly explored by resourceful scholars.
Book Synopsis Reminiscences of an Indian Official by : Sir Orfeur Cavenagh
Download or read book Reminiscences of an Indian Official written by Sir Orfeur Cavenagh and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Town and Fort of Malacca by : Malacca (Malacca). Malacca Centenary Committee
Download or read book The Town and Fort of Malacca written by Malacca (Malacca). Malacca Centenary Committee and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China and China by : John Thomson
Download or read book The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China and China written by John Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by Singapore and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis State of Singapore by : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Download or read book State of Singapore written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Encyclopædia of Gardening ... Fifth edition by : John Claudius Loudon
Download or read book An Encyclopædia of Gardening ... Fifth edition written by John Claudius Loudon and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Encyclopædia of Gardening by : John Claudius Loudon
Download or read book An Encyclopædia of Gardening written by John Claudius Loudon and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Encyclopaedia of Gardening by : John Claudius Loudon
Download or read book An Encyclopaedia of Gardening written by John Claudius Loudon and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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