White Rajah : A Biography of Sir James Brooke
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0349116733
ISBN-13
9780349116730
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint
Abacus
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 2nd, 2003
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
190 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 12.80 x 1.80 cms
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* A wonderful piece of swashbuckling historical biography which recalls the best and the worst of the British Imperial character.
Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary ''eminent'' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up in a war in Brunei which had started because a party of local Dayaks had refused to furl their umbrellas in the presence of the Sultan. Brooke was an opportunist who, with the Sultan''s backing, made war on the Dayaks tribespeople and eventually found himself ruling over Sarawak - a kingdom the size of England - as a result. How he achieved it is a romantic, sometimes horrifying story. Brooke is someone that George Macdonald Fraser would scarcely dare to invent. Errol Flynn wanted to play him in a movie, seventy years after his death and his dynasty is remembered throughout South-East Asia.
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