“Planter Upriver” has sixty short stories set in Perak, Johor and Sabah in Malaysia, as well as Solomon Islands, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo). The stories span the early 1960s to mid-1980s when the writer was working mainly in Unilever plantations, which had rubber, oil palm and cocoa and coconut, and also ran cattle in the islands in the South Pacific. There were colourful characters even in the most remote places. The writer has also seen the lighter side of their work as shown in some of these stories. “Planter Upriver” follows the writer’s first book “Planter’s Tales.” “Planter’s Tales” also has sixty anecdotes of people many of whom were larger than life and who figured in the progress of the plantation industry in the tropics.