White Rajah

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Nigel Barley x{0026}lt;/strong (Kingston upon Thames, 1947) es antropólogo, y hasta 2003 fue conservador especializado en África septentrional y occidental del Museum of Mankind del Museo Británico. Tras licenciarse en Lenguas Mo dernas en Cambridge, se doctoró en Antropología Social en Oxford. En Anagrama ha publicado su celebérrimo x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El antropólogo inocente,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong así como x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Una plaga de orugas, No es un deporte de riesgox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong Bailando sobre la tumba.x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/p