Written by the man who served as his secretary, this life follows Sir James Brooke from his adventurous youth to his rule as Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo, his campaigns against piracy and the Chinese rising that nearly cost him his life. St. John writes as an admirer and an imperialist, and his views of Asian peoples and British power are those of the 1890s.
An insider’s portrait of one of the strangest careers of the Victorian age. Download the free EPUB.