A guide to Singapore, providing background on the history, people, and culture of the Asian city-state; featuring maps and information about places of interest; and including practical travel tips on topics such as climate, dining, transportation, accomodations, and entertainment.
An overview of Singapore that covers its environment, plants and animals, history, government, industries, religions, culture, and lifestyles and includes a time line, further resource list, fast facts, and approximately one hundred color photos.
Details the bloody defeat of the supposedly impregnable Singapore by the Japanese in 1942, an event which signaled the end of European colonial empires in the Far East.
Johnnie looks forward to weekends when he visits his grandmother, who lives outside the city of Singapore in a little house in an orchard, with only her animals for company. Based on the author/artist's childhood memories.
