Nigel Barley: White Rajah | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780349116730 | White Rajah | A Biography of Sir James Brooke | Nigel Barley | Buch

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Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of [...] 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.

Über den Autor

Nigel Barley is the author of six books, including THE INNOCENT ANTHROPOLOGIST and DANCING ON THE GRAVE. He is the curator of London's Museum of Mankind.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2003
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780349116730
ISBN-10:	0349116733
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Barley, Nigel
Hersteller:	Little, Brown Book Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	199 x 126 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Nigel Barley
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.10.2003
Gewicht:	0,211 kg