We now come to our journeys end. Isabella Bird travelled through the “Native States” of British Malaya in 1879 meeting various British officials and Malay dignitaries. She assessed the pros and cons of the different approaches the British officials took regarding the “civilising” of the locals. The questions her journey raises in Lawrence Gray’s mind, was who exactly benefited from this self imposed civilising mission and what exactly was civilised and what was not? Read more at http://lawrencegray.net/Travel/blog-2 where you will find all twenty episodes with written and illustrated accounts of each episode as an accompaniment to the talks.