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Adventure and romance, humour and pathos, beauty and horror, all blend in these pages to recreate the people and practices of the East Coast of Peninsula Malaysia (West Malaysia) as Hugh Clifford knew them just over a hundred years ago.
A faithful record of life in both "Court and Kampung", his stories portray a past that is gone forever. Yet, at the same time, they reaffirm the universality and little-changing state of human nature.
Also to be found in this book are some of the most vivid and lyrical passages ever to have been written about the sights, sounds and smells of the tropics.
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