Brooke, James Un rajah blanc a Borneo. La vie de Sir James Brooke.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: Biography | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: Buffet, Charlie | Copyright information

Brooke, James Un rajah blanc a Borneo. La vie de Sir James Brooke. Nigel Barley. Trans. Bernard Blanc. Paris: Payot, 2006. 302 pp. Euro20.

He was born in 1803, the son of a functionary in the East India Company. At 12, he was sent back to an English grammar-school; he joined the Bengal army at 16, was wounded in Burma "in the seat of passion," with non-explicit consequences. In 1839 he lands at Borneo and manages to be made a rajah by the sultan of Brunei. Queen Victoria...

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