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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Old Penang
  title info: title
  name:
    name part: Hoyt, Sarnia Hayes
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Sarnia Hayes Hoyt
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: Singapore,New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 1991
    date issued: 9999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: und
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 97 p.
    extent: ill.
    extent: 21 cm
  abstract: For centuries Penang was part of the Muslim state of Kedah, but after the intervention in 1786 of a `forgotten' English trader, Captain Francis Light, it became a British mercantile and shipping outpost, administered as part of British India and renamed Prince of Wales Island. From this first toehold in the Strait of Malacca, British power and influence eventually spread to the entire Malayan Peninsula, as well as to Singapore and parts of Borneo. Old Penang tells how Francis Light, using economic inventiveness, attracted peoples from all over the region so that the first settlement in the Strait quickly became a place where `so many people are assembled together and so great a variety of langauges are spoken in so small a space'. This cosmopolitan flavour, combined with natural scenic beauty, made Penang a favourite port of call fpr travellers on the long voyage from Europe to the Fare East. Using broad brush strokes as well as punctilious details, the author has painted a historical portrait of old Penang: its communities, its growing pains, its principal personalities, and its chief attractions. Beginning with James Wathen in 1811, there is also a gallery of travelling artists whose works have been included among the paintings and drawings that illustrate the text
  note: Sarnia Hayes Hoyt
  subject:
    topic: Pinang
  classification: 959.51
  classification: S243
  identifier: 9789835600173
  identifier: 9835600171
  record info:
    record creation date: 210423
    record identifier: TVU_11350