Kinta Valley: From Tin Frontier to Modern Malaya
by Khoo Salma Nasution & Abdur-Razzaq Lubis

Kinta Valley: Pioneering Malaysia’s Modern Development, by the same authors, has long been out of print. This revised and expanded edition focuses on developments up to 1941 and is richly illustrated with new photographs.

More tin has been produced from Kinta than from any other district in the world. Tin was won from the foothills and from the plains; from river-beds, limestone caves and granite rock. Indeed, tin built the towns, the roads and railways of Kinta, and even paid for the development of the Federated Malay States.

This book details the development, from the late 19th century, of the many charming towns of Kinta. It charts the rise of Ipoh as the ‘hub of Malaya’, and the vicissitudes of tin and rubber booms and busts. The making of Kinta, once the wealthiest district in British Malaya, epitomizes the bitter-sweet story of the country’s birth into the modern era.

📘 Hardcover • 460 pages • Illustrated
📅 Available November 2026
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