Seberang Perai Story: Early Views of Province Wellesley | Peatixtag:peatix.com,2011:12021-11-15T09:07:19+08:00PeatixMYSeberang Perai Story: Early Views of Province Wellesleytag:peatix.com,2015:event-1079732015-08-16T09:30:00MYT2015-08-16T09:30:00MYTFree Admission. Limited seats only. RSVP to info@pht.org.my"From Pinang [island] one sees its broad stretches of bright green sugar-cane and the chimneys of its sugar factories, and it grows rice and cocoa-nuts", wrote Isabella Bird, describing the view of Seberang Perai or Province Wellesley in 1800, the landscape of Province Wellesley was dramatically transformed into cultivated rice-fields and plantations in the nineteenth century. Using one hundred photographs, paintings and maps, the speaker attempts to trace the development of Seberang Perai in terms of early explorations, land and water transport, urbanization, agriculture and industry.SPEAKER’S PROFILEKhoo Salma Nasution, nee Khoo Su Nin is a writer, publisher and heritage advocate and an Asian Public Intellectual Fellow. She has been involved in heritage since 1989, first as Honorary Secretary then as President of the Penang Heritage Trust, and through her stewardship of the Sun Yat Sen Museum Penang. She is a co-founder of Areca Books. She has authored or co-authored a dozen books, such as: The Streets of George Town, Penang (1993), Kinta Valley (2005) and Redoubtable Reformer, The Life and Times of Cheah Cheang Lim (2015). Her recent book, The Chulia in Penang: Patronage and Place-Making around the Kapitan Kling Mosque 1786–1957 (2014), won the ICAS Book Prize 2015, Colleague’s Choice Award.