{"product_id":"rogue-raider","title":"Rogue Raider","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the First World War and the Flashmanesque German naval reserve captain, Julius Lauterbach, is a prisoner of war in the old Tanglin barracks of Singapore. He is also a braggart, a womaniser and a heavy drinker and through his bored fantasies, he unwittingly triggers a mutiny by Muslim troops of the British garrison — the 1915 Singapore Mutiny — and so throws the whole course of the war in doubt. The British lose control of the city, its European inhabitants flee to the ships in the harbour and it is only with the help of Japanese marines that the Empire is saved. Rogue Raider is the adventure story of how one ship, the Emden, ties up the navies of four nations and audaciously starts the Battle of Penang in Malaysia, and how one man eludes Allied Forces in a desperate chase across Indonesia and the rest of Asia to America as he attempts to regain his native land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is fictionalised history but a true history that was deliberately suppressed by the British authorities of the time as too embarrassing and dangerous to be known. Revealed here, it brings vividly to life the Southeast Asia of the period, its sights, its sounds and its rich mix of peoples. And through it, an unwilling participant in the war becomes an accidental hero.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNigel Barley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas born in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eKingston upon Thames\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein 1947. He gained his bachelor's degree in modern languages at\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eCambridge University, and his\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edoctorate\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esocial anthropology\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eat\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eOxford University. He worked for some years as an academic at London University and then served from 1980 to 2003 as an assistant keeper of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eEthnography\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eat the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBritish Museum.\u003csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-JRank_3-0\"\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarley's first travel book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Innocent Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1983), gave a popular account of anthropological fieldwork among the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDowayo\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epeople of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eCameroon. Barley then worked as an anthropologist in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIndonesia. His first book based on his time there was the humorous\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot a Hazardous Sport\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1989) describing his anthropological experiences in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTana Toraja\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein the mountains of central\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSulawesi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarley has written on many other subjects including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSir James Brooke, the \"white rajah\" of Sarawak.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHe has been twice nominated for the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTravelex\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWriter of the Year Award. In 2002, he won the Foreign Press Association prize for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etravel writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Pansing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32123234156657,"sku":"9789814423137","price":18.5,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/Rogue_Raider_by_Nigel_Barley_00.jpg?v=1602761901","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/rogue-raider","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}