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Author Thorp, Michael, 1936-

Title Elephants, tigers & tappers / Michael Thorp
Published Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations
Contents Untitled; Contents; CHAPTER 1 Do you Play Cricket?; CHAPTER 2 The Voyae out, On the Willem Ruys; CHAPTER 3 Arrival On Kuala Reman Estate; CHAPTER 4 Life On A Rubber Estate; CHAPTER 5 Working With Robbie AndThe Elephant fence; CHAPTER 6 Working With George Wood; CHAPTER 7 Loneliness Can Lead In ManyDirections; CHAPTER 8 Maurice In The Jungle And OnMerdeka Day; CHAPTER 9 Hot Days, Sweaty Nights,And Cool Muster; CHAPTER 10 Motorcycle And Liberation; CHAPTER 11 Telok Cempedak; CHAPTER 12 Cricket On The Padang Besar AndThe Kuantan Recreation Club
CHAPTER 13 A Lift From The Sultan,With No OutridersCHAPTER 14 West Meets East; CHAPTER 15 Transfer To Nada; CHAPTER 16 Hit On The HeadBy The Shopkeeper's Wife; CHAPTER 17 Back To Panching; CHAPTER 18 Ah Moi; CHAPTER 19 Sungai Lembing Cut Off By Floods; CHAPTER 20 Monkey Attack; CHAPTER 21 Going Home; A Poem For Ah Moi
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Subject Thorp, Michael, 1936-
SUBJECT Thorp, Michael, 1936- fast
Subject Rubber plantation workers -- Malaysia -- Malaya -- Biography
Plantation life -- Malaysia -- Malaya -- History
English -- Malaysia -- Malaya -- Biography
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
English
Plantation life
Rubber plantation workers
Malaya
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789812619785
981261978X
9789814677202
9814677205
Other Titles Subtitle on cover: Recollections of a British rubber planter in Malaya