Tag: Victoria Glendinning
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Dec. 12, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences What a Stinker Sir Stamford Raffles is a footnote in history for having identified a swampy and malarial island at the bottom of the Malay Peninsula as the site of the future New Serenissima (Venice) nowadays known as Singapore. He is due that credit. He’s also […]