The Devil's Garden
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Gardens are magical placesĀ ā images of Nature and Culture, models of paradise, spaces where plants live in war and peace, co-operation and competition. It is 1942 and Singapore is Syonanto, part of the Japanese Empire, where violence and starvation stalk the streets but in the Singapore Botanic Gardens a bizarre tranquillity reigns between warring nations and even love awakes as old identities melt away in the heady atmosphere of the Orchid House. From its unique perspective and with a mixture of humour and romance, The Devil's Garden pictures a formative moment in the emergence of Singapore, where loyalties are less secure than those of the official histories and truth is anything but simple. Love and war in Singapore under the Japanese flag.
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Nigel BarleyĀ was born inĀ Kingston upon ThamesĀ in 1947. He gained his bachelor's degree in modern languages atĀ Cambridge University, and hisĀ doctorateĀ inĀ social anthropologyĀ atĀ Oxford University. He worked for some years as an academic at London University and then served from 1980 to 2003 as an assistant keeper ofĀ EthnographyĀ at theĀ British Museum.
Barley's first travel book,Ā The Innocent AnthropologistĀ (1983), gave a popular account of anthropological fieldwork among theĀ DowayoĀ people ofĀ Cameroon. Barley then worked as an anthropologist inĀ Indonesia. His first book based on his time there was the humorousĀ Not a Hazardous SportĀ (1989) describing his anthropological experiences inĀ Tana TorajaĀ in the mountains of centralĀ Sulawesi.
Barley has written on many other subjects includingĀ Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore,Ā andĀ Sir James Brooke, the "white rajah" of Sarawak.Ā He has been twice nominated for theĀ TravelexĀ Writer of the Year Award. In 2002, he won the Foreign Press Association prize forĀ travel writing.
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- About the Author
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Gardens are magical placesĀ ā images of Nature and Culture, models of paradise, spaces where plants live in war and peace, co-operation and competition. It is 1942 and Singapore is Syonanto, part of the Japanese Empire, where violence and starvation stalk the streets but in the Singapore Botanic Gardens a bizarre tranquillity reigns between warring nations and even love awakes as old identities melt away in the heady atmosphere of the Orchid House. From its unique perspective and with a mixture of humour and romance, The Devil's Garden pictures a formative moment in the emergence of Singapore, where loyalties are less secure than those of the official histories and truth is anything but simple. Love and war in Singapore under the Japanese flag.
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Nigel BarleyĀ was born inĀ Kingston upon ThamesĀ in 1947. He gained his bachelor's degree in modern languages atĀ Cambridge University, and hisĀ doctorateĀ inĀ social anthropologyĀ atĀ Oxford University. He worked for some years as an academic at London University and then served from 1980 to 2003 as an assistant keeper ofĀ EthnographyĀ at theĀ British Museum.
Barley's first travel book,Ā The Innocent AnthropologistĀ (1983), gave a popular account of anthropological fieldwork among theĀ DowayoĀ people ofĀ Cameroon. Barley then worked as an anthropologist inĀ Indonesia. His first book based on his time there was the humorousĀ Not a Hazardous SportĀ (1989) describing his anthropological experiences inĀ Tana TorajaĀ in the mountains of centralĀ Sulawesi.
Barley has written on many other subjects includingĀ Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore,Ā andĀ Sir James Brooke, the "white rajah" of Sarawak.Ā He has been twice nominated for theĀ TravelexĀ Writer of the Year Award. In 2002, he won the Foreign Press Association prize forĀ travel writing.
