Publisher: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Place: Kuala Lumpur
Year: 2011
Format: Paperback
Pages: 306 pages
Period: 19th and 20th Century
Book Description
Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Faint blue mark on tail foredge.
Reprint of original 1952 issue of the Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, titled Documents Relating to John Clunies Ross, Alexander Hare and the establishment of the Colony on the Cocos-Keeling Islands.
Carl Gibson-Hill, A medical doctor and naturalist, was posted to the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1940, for ten months before returning to Singapore only to be interned as a POW at Changi prison.