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Author | : Tom Williams |
Publisher | : Accent Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2014-06-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781783756025 |
When charismatic adventurer James Brooke travels to Borneo on the schooner Royalist, he plans to make a great fortune establishing trade between the natives and the British Empire. But even in his flights of fancy, he'd never imagined that he would end up rajah of his own country. The story is told by John Williamson, a young sailor who has travelled with Brooke since he set out from England. They find themselves mixed up in Borneo's civil war, political divisions, and intrigue, being forced further and further away from their dreams and ideals and struggling to establish the British presence on the island - as, meanwhile, love grows between them ... Based on the true story of James Brooke, the first White Rajah of Sarawak, this tale of adventure and love is set against the background of a jungle world of extraordinary beauty and savagery.
Author | : Nicholas Monsarrat |
Publisher | : House of Stratus |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2012-05-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0755130065 |
The breathtaking island of Makassang, in the Java Sea, is the setting for this tremendous historical novel. Piracy, plundering and barbarism are rife. The ageing Rajah, threatened by rebellion, enlists the help of Richard Marriott - baronet's son-turned-buccaneer, but Richard falls for the Rajah's daughter.
Author | : Steven Runciman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2011-02-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521128995 |
The White Rajah documents a fascinating time in Sarawak made possible by high integrity of three generations of Brooke men.
Author | : Cassandra Pybus |
Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780702228575 |
Author | : Nigel Barley |
Publisher | : Abacus |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2013-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0349139857 |
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.
Author | : Sabine Baring-Gould |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nicholas Monsarrat |
Publisher | : House of Stratus |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2012-05-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0755143590 |
The breathtaking island of Makassang, in the Java Sea, is the setting for this tremendous historical novel. Piracy, plundering and barbarism are rife. The ageing Rajah, threatened by rebellion, enlists the help of Richard Marriott - baronet's son-turned-buccaneer, but Richard falls for the Rajah's daughter.
Author | : Neil Price |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 629 |
Release | : 2020-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465096999 |
The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From Eirík Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most traveled woman in the world, Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.
Author | : Dave Carley |
Publisher | : Scirocco Drama |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2021-10 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781927922903 |
Canadian Rajah is the incredible -- and true -- story of Esca Brooke Daykin. He was the first-born son of the legendary "White Rajah of Sarawak" but was exiled from that country (a British colony, now part of Malaysia) to the backwoods of Eastern Ontario. Esca's very existence was erased from his birth country's history books. He waged a lifelong battle to have his true identity and parentage recognized. Esca's life spans continents, races, generations and centuries -- and only now is it being told.
Author | : C. S. Godshalk |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1999-04-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780805055344 |
One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions coexisted tenuously with one of the most violent cultures on earth, often with startling results: pockets of tenderness and extreme brutality appearing where least expected. Into this world flowed a small tribe of adventurers, fugitives, criminals, and saints-- the madly talented and simply mad. And the women followed: wives and would-be wives, spinster nursemaids and heartless schemers, the rigidly virtuous and the virtually desperate. And always, the children, innocents too often the victims of an elemental nature both lush and deadly. Kalimantaan is the story of this world, these people. But the deeper story resides in the realm of the heart. It is about love in absurd conditions, the tenacity of it as well as our ability to miss it repeatedly and with perverse genius.