White Rajah B 英文原版

　　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.

　　Nigel Barley is the author of six books, including THE
INNOCENT ANTHROPOLOGIST and DANCING ON THE GRAVE. He is the curator
of London’s Museum of Mankind.