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Author : George Foggo
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Adventures of Sir J. Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak written by George Foggo and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Foggo
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Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Adventures of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. written by George Foggo and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. S. Godshalk
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805055344
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Kalimantaan written by C. S. Godshalk and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Nigel Barley
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0349139857
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book White Rajah written by Nigel Barley and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sir Henry Keppel
Publisher : New York : Harper & brothers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy written by Sir Henry Keppel and published by New York : Harper & brothers. This book was released on 1846 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
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Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A History of Sarawak Under Its Two White Rajahs, 1839-1908 written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ross A. Slotten
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231130110
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Heretic in Darwin's Court written by Ross A. Slotten and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During their lifetimes, Wallace and Darwin shared credit and fame for the independent and near-simultaneous discovery of natural selection. Their rivalry, usually amicable but occasionally acrimonious, forged modern evolutionary theory. Yet today, few people today know much about Wallace. This book explores the controversial life and scientific contributions of the Victorian traveler, scientist and spiritualist. His twelve years of often harrowing travels in the western and eastern tropics place him in the pantheon of the greatest explorer-naturalists of the nineteenth century. Tracing his discovery of natural selection, the book then follows the remaining fifty years of Wallace's eccentric and entertaining life. In addition to his divergence from Darwin on two fundamental issues--sexual selection and the origin of the human mind--he pursued topics that most scientific figures of his day conspicuously avoided, including spiritualism, phrenology, mesmerism, environmentalism, and life on Mars.--From publisher description.
Author : Cassandra Pybus
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702228575
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (285 download)
Download or read book White Rajah written by Cassandra Pybus and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Author : Sir Spenser St. John
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Life of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarãwak, from His Personal Papers and Correspondence written by Sir Spenser St. John and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Spenser St. John
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Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Life of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak written by Sir Spenser St. John and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Brooke
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015650183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)
Download or read book My Life in Sarawak written by Margaret Brooke and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Hugh Low
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Sarawak, Its Inhabitants and Productions written by Hugh Low and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond Craib
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629639273
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Adventure Capitalism written by Raymond Craib and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not be. The past half century is littered with the remains of such experiments in what Raymond Craib calls “libertarian exit.” Often dismissed as little more than the dreams of crazy, rich Caucasians, exit strategies have been tried out from the southwest Pacific to the Caribbean, from the North Sea to the high seas, often with dire consequences for local inhabitants. Based on research in archives in the US, the UK, and Vanuatu, as well as in FBI files acquired through the Freedom of Information Act, Craib explores in careful detail the ideology and practice of libertarian exit and its place in the histories of contemporary capitalism, decolonization, empire, and oceans and islands. Adventure Capitalism is a global history that intersects with an array of figures: Fidel Castro and the Koch brothers, American segregationists and Melanesian socialists, Honolulu-based real estate speculators and British Special Branch spies, soldiers of fortune and English lords, Orange County engineers and Tongan navigators, CIA operatives and CBS news executives, and a new breed of techno-utopians and an old guard of Honduran coup leaders. This is not only a history of our time but, given the new iterations of privatized exit—seasteads, free private cities, and space colonization—it is also a history of our future.
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Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrea White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052141606X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition written by Andrea White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century adventure fiction relating to the British empire usually served to promote, celebrate and justify the imperial project, asserting the essential and privileging difference between 'us' and 'them', colonizing and colonized. Andrea White's study opens with an examination of popular exploration literature in relation to later adventure stories, showing how a shared view of the white man in the tropics authorized the European intrusion into other lands. She then sets the fiction of Joseph Conrad in this context, showing how Conrad in fact demythologized and disrupted the imperial subject constructed in earlier writing, by simultaneously - with the modernist's double vision - admiring man's capacity to dream but applauding the desire to condemn many of its consequences. She argues that the very complexity of Conrad's work provided an alternative, and more critical, means of evaluating the experience of empire.
Author : Tom Williams
Publisher : Accent Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781783756025
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The White Rajah written by Tom Williams and published by Accent Press (UK). This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
