By Sholto Byrnes View as one page 4:34 PM Saturday Jun 26, 2010 Email Print After a dinner of crispy buttered prawns, I fell to reading Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim. Very soon, I concluded that I had stumbled upon the novel's fictional Malay state of Patusan, so little sign of change was there from the time when Conrad visited these parts over a century ago. This awakening happened on the small island of Gemia, part of a land- and seascape that is so overlooked by British tourists that it might as...
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