\"Any kind of job is a University,\" says Tan Kok Seng at one point, and this autobiography shows how, with very little education, he learned from the world around him.In his first book, Son of Singapore, he told how he went to work at fifteen as a coolie. Man of Malaysia finds him, aged twenty, working as driver to a diplomat in Kuala Lumpur. Against this busy background of activity and travel, which takes him to many parts of Malaya and to Sarawak, he gives a vivid and moving account of falling in love and getting married against parental opposition.Then his world unexpectedly collapses, leaving him struggling to keep his wife and infant son alive, doing a succession of jobs so varied that they amount to a panorama of Malaysian life. The reader is taken into Malay kampongs, remote fishing villages, the tin mines, the hill stations. The result is not only a portrait of a man, but a portrait of the country itself. Malaysia, its spirit and atmosphere, truly lives in this fast-moving, varied and absorbing real-life story.Man of Malaysia by Tan Kok Seng. Published by Heinemann 1977. Reprint. 205pp. Paperback. Book condition: Good - slight scratches to spine, but largely clean internally and externally. Tightly bound.