Dragon Penang Chronicles 1 by Rose Gan Paperback

Before Raffles, before Rajah Brooke, there was Francis Light, the 18th-century trailblazer in the Malay Archipelago. Dragon, the first volume of Penang Chronicles, charts Francis Light's colourful adventures in the decades before the settlement of Penang island, the Honourable Company's first possession on the Malay Peninsula.