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In this new expanded Bicentennial edition of Travellers' Tales, more than 80 visitors from the past provide readers of today with authentic portraits of old singapore. These vivid first-hand accounts - in letters, diaries and memoirs - bring the past fully alive, from the founding of Singapore in 1819 to the Japanese surrender.

One otherwise regular January morning in 2009, Michael Wise's world was thrown into turmoil. He was at the peak of his career as an internationally renowned specialist dental surgeon when he was struck by an exceptionally rare, near- fatal, streptococcal blood infection.