Author: Steven Runciman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521128995
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The White Rajah documents a fascinating time in Sarawak made possible by high integrity of three generations of Brooke men.
The White Rajah
Author: Steven Runciman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521128995
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The White Rajah documents a fascinating time in Sarawak made possible by high integrity of three generations of Brooke men.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521128995
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The White Rajah documents a fascinating time in Sarawak made possible by high integrity of three generations of Brooke men.
A History of Sarawak Under Its Two White Rajahs, 1839-1908
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The White Rajahs of Sarawak
Author: Robert Payne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The story of the Brooke dynasty, James, Charles, and Vyner, Rajahs of Sarawak for over a hundred years.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The story of the Brooke dynasty, James, Charles, and Vyner, Rajahs of Sarawak for over a hundred years.
Rajahs and Rebels
Author: Robert Pringle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
White Rajah
Author: Cassandra Pybus
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702228575
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
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Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702228575
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
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Twilight of the White Rajahs
Author: Alex Ling
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479791679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Power, passion, politics. The sleepy state of Sarawak is stirred up as never before by the arrival of Gerald McBryan. An unscrupulous adventurer, he soon has the Rajah and Ranee eating out of his hand. The eminence grise of Rajah Vyner, he forces through decisions that have shaped what Sarawak is today. Twilight of the White Rajahs is set in the Sarawak of the interwar and immediate postwar period. Vyner, like Henry VII of England, has inherited a tightly run ship of state. But his own playboy nature, the antics of his wife and most important his failure to produce a male heir, threaten the dynasty into which he was born. Outside forces also increase the pressure on his regime. War clouds in the Pacific and the South China Sea. The desire for self-determination. The bullying of the British Colonial Office. The turbulent wave of anti-cession created by the Rajah Muda, Peter Brooke. A war of hot tempers, cunning and deviousness ensued; a war that everyone was determined to win at all costs. Twilight of the White Rajahs recounts in fascinating detail the lives of the chief actors during this period. Twilight of the White Rajahs continues the saga of Golden Dreams of Borneo as the tough pioneering spirit of the 19th century gives way to the more sophisticated politics of the 20th.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479791679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Power, passion, politics. The sleepy state of Sarawak is stirred up as never before by the arrival of Gerald McBryan. An unscrupulous adventurer, he soon has the Rajah and Ranee eating out of his hand. The eminence grise of Rajah Vyner, he forces through decisions that have shaped what Sarawak is today. Twilight of the White Rajahs is set in the Sarawak of the interwar and immediate postwar period. Vyner, like Henry VII of England, has inherited a tightly run ship of state. But his own playboy nature, the antics of his wife and most important his failure to produce a male heir, threaten the dynasty into which he was born. Outside forces also increase the pressure on his regime. War clouds in the Pacific and the South China Sea. The desire for self-determination. The bullying of the British Colonial Office. The turbulent wave of anti-cession created by the Rajah Muda, Peter Brooke. A war of hot tempers, cunning and deviousness ensued; a war that everyone was determined to win at all costs. Twilight of the White Rajahs recounts in fascinating detail the lives of the chief actors during this period. Twilight of the White Rajahs continues the saga of Golden Dreams of Borneo as the tough pioneering spirit of the 19th century gives way to the more sophisticated politics of the 20th.
White Rajah
Author: Nigel Barley
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 0349139857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 0349139857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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.
Canadian Rajah
Author: Dave Carley
Publisher: Scirocco Drama
ISBN: 9781927922903
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Scirocco Drama
ISBN: 9781927922903
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
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.
Ten Years in Saráwak
Author: Charles (Rajah of Sarawak)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sarawak
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sarawak
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Chinese Pioneers on the Sarawak Frontier, 1841-1941
Author: Daniel Chew
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Based on archival records as well as oral histories, this book reconstructs the pioneering history of the early Chinese settlers in Sarawak. While much scholarship has focused on urban Chinese settlements, Chew tells the story of the Chinese who moved to the rural areas--those who traded with the Ibans and other tribes, or were recruited to work in the coal mines and oil fields.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Based on archival records as well as oral histories, this book reconstructs the pioneering history of the early Chinese settlers in Sarawak. While much scholarship has focused on urban Chinese settlements, Chew tells the story of the Chinese who moved to the rural areas--those who traded with the Ibans and other tribes, or were recruited to work in the coal mines and oil fields.