White Rajah - Nigel Barley
White Rajah - Nigel Barley 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…
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White Rajah - Nigel Barley
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. How he achieved it is a romantic, sometimes horrifying story. 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.
Errol Flynn wanted to play him in a movie, seventy years after his death and his dynasty is remembered throughout South-East Brooke is someone that George Macdonald Fraser would scarcely dare to invent.