Stock ID #158109 Camping and Tramping in Malaya. AMBROSE B. RATHBORNE.

Camping and Tramping in Malaya.

United Kingdom. John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd., 2015. Stock ID #158109

Maps, black and white illustrations, 211pp, a very good paperback copy.

"Ambrose Rathborne was an Australian mining engineer who moved first to Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) as a coffee planter, and then in the 1880s to the Malay States, where he worked as a planter and entrepreneur.

Camping and Tramping in Malaya: Fifteen Years in the Native States of the Malay Peninsula was first published in 1898, and is a lively and entertaining account of the author's travels, with fascinating insights into the colonial personalities and working conditions of the day. An urge to find his own nirvana in the hills for planting Arabica coffee evidently drove Rathborne's initial years in Malaya, and his chief legacy is his role in surveying for the alignments of the first long-distance roads in Malaysia. As Malaysia develops and matures as a nation state, interest will surely grow in its early formative years. Rathborne's Camping and Tramping is an excellent place to start, and as easy to read as a good novel." (Publisher's description).

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