White Rajah: A Biography of Sir James Brooke
Nigel Barley
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.
年:
2002
出版:
Original retail
出版社:
Hachette Digital
语言:
english
页:
272
ISBN 10:
0349139857
ISBN 13:
9780349139852
文件:
EPUB, 218 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2002