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Email: orders@combook.co.ukPhone: 01892 837171Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to changewithout notice. 13/06/2024Orders: Combined Book Services Ltd.STARSales: Star Book Sales LLP T: 01404 515050E: enquiries@starbooksales.comtwitter.com/starbooksalesRanald Noel-Paton was born in Bombay in 1938. Growing up in Scotland and England after the War, he was educated at Rugby School and McGill University. Ranald spent 21 years in the airline industry and served overseas in West Africa and the Asia Pacific region; in Hong Kong as General Manager Far East for British Caledonian airways. He returned to the UK in 1986 to be Group Managing director of John Menzies PLC. In 1991, he was awarded an Honorary doctorate by Napier University in Edinburgh. He and his wife have been married for more than 50 years and they now live inScotland.Ranald Noel-Paton is a direct descendant of George Windsor Earl.Publication: 7th NOVEMBER 2024ISBN: 9781853982071Price: %u00a335Binding: HardbackFormat: 234 x 156 mmExtent: 288Illustrated: Illustrated throughout Thema: DNB BiographyPrevious edition: 9781853981869 (2018)George Windsor Earl (1813-1865) was one of that great band of young British men who adventured far to the east in the early 19th century to forge careers, make fortunes and help build the empire. At the age of sixteen he sailed for Western Australia to become one of the early settlers at the Swan River (Perth). There soon followed four years of sailing, including captaining a trading schooner in the largely uncharted waters of the East. Returning to London, his widely acclaimed book, The Eastern Seas, appeared in 1837. Earl sailed back to the East in 1838 as a member of the expedition that founded and manned a new naval station and settlement at Port Essington in Northern Australia. Earl was largely selfeducated and mastered a range of languages which included Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Malay and various local dialects. He was an imperialist in the tradition of his hero, Sir Stamford Raffles and his scholarly interests were legion. He published numerous works encompassing navigation, hydrology, agriculture, commerce, geography, archaeology and ethnography. Earl later joined the government service in Singapore and filled the last part of his life there and in the Straits Settlements as law agent, journalist, advocate, magistrate and Assistant Resident Councillor. Finally, broken by tropical diseases, this eternally optimistic, adventurous and remarkable man died in Penang in 1865 at the age of 52.This revised edition incorporates new information which has recently come to light concerning George Windsor Earl, his family and the Straits Settlements.ISBN 978-1-85398-207-19 7 8 1 8 5 3 9 8 2 0 71AN EASTERN CALLING (REVISED & EXPANDED ED.)GEORGE WINDSOR EARL AND A VISION OF EMPRERanald Noel-Paton