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A Company of Planters: Confessions of a Colonial Rubber Planter in 1950s Malaya - Softcover

Dodd, John

 
9789810575694: A Company of Planters: Confessions of a Colonial Rubber Planter in 1950s Malaya

Synopsis

With true stories and confessions that would make even Somerset Maugham blush, John Dodd has penned a fascinating, and often hilarious, memoir of his life as a colonial rubber planter in 1950s Malaya. When not exploring the Chinese bars and brothels of Penang, there were strikes, riots, snakes, plantation fires and deadly ambushes by Communist terrorists to contend with.

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About the Author

John Dodd (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) left Britain for colonial Malaya in 1956 aged 21; he now calls Malaysia home. In 1991 he was awarded an MBE for services to agriculture.

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