The Man who Collected Women by Nigel Barley
A novel about eccentric 19th-century Englishman Alexander Hare: a trader and slave-owner in the East and a friend of Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, but Hare’s chief claim to fame is as the creator of a harem of women from throughout Asia.
Nigel Barley was born south of London in 1947. After taking a degree in modern languages at Cambridge, he gained a doctorate in anthropology at Oxford. Barley originally trained as an anthropologist and worked in West Africa, spending time with the Dowayo people of North Cameroon. He survived to move to the Ethnography Department of the British Museum and it was in this connection that he first travelled to Southeast Asia. After forays into Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and Burma, Barley settled on Indonesia as his principal research interest and has worked on both the history and contemporary culture of that area. After escaping from the museum, he is now a writer and broadcaster and divides his time between London and Indonesia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781912049745 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912049740 |
| Title | The Man who Collected Women |
| Author | Nigel Barley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Monsoon Books |
| Year published | 2020-08-12 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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