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KALIMANTAAN - the old name for Borneo - is an epic novel about the founding of a small empire by an extraordinary man and a handful of his followers. It is also a beautifully written story about love surviving in the most hostile of circumstances.
It is 1850 and a young Englishman, Gideon Barr, arrives in Borneo; within 10 years he has conquered an area the size of England and Wales, ruling through armies of tribal head-hunters. This is the story of Victorian social values superimposed on one of the most violent cultures on earth, of tenderness amid extreme brutality, and of a remarkable tribe of fugitives, missionaries, and romantics drawn to this remote outpost of the world. But the personal cost to Barr is enormous - he and his lovely wife, Amelia, lose three children to cholera and finally she has to return home to ensure the safety of their last surviving child. Full of fantastic descriptions of life in exotic conditions, this is a rare novel that immerses the reader in another, more wonderful world.
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Like being taken to a magical unknown planet, yet suddenly realizing it all takes place on this globe in mysterious Borneo and Sarawak: a beautifully written, elegant and rich dream' (John Fowles)
Breathtaking...a plot summary can't hope to do justice to the richness and complexity of this extraordinary novel...it is a mesmerising story, beautifully told (OBSERVER)
This is a wonderful story, exceptionally told. (Beryl Bainbridge)
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Breathtaking...a plot summary can't hope to do justice to the richness and complexity of this extraordinary novel...it is a mesmerising story, beautifully told (OBSERVER)
This is a wonderful story, exceptionally told. (Beryl Bainbridge)
*A wonderful epic of Empire - set in 19th Century Borneo - comparable to Paul Scott's JEWEL IN THE CROWN.
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- EditoreLittle, Brown
- Data di pubblicazione1998
- ISBN 10 0316646512
- ISBN 13 9780316646512
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine480
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Good. 472 pages. Cover worn. 1850 and a young Englishman, Gideon Ba rr, arrives in Borneo; within ten years he has conquered an area the size of England and Wales, ruling through armies of tribal he adhunters. But the personal cost is enormous and Gideon's wife mu st return home to ensure the safety of their surviving child. Codice articolo 1389f
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Good. 472 pages : maps / It is 1850, and a young Englishman, Gideon Barr, arrives in Borneo. Within ten years he has conquered an area the size of England and Wales, ruling through armies of tribal headhunters. But the personal cost is enormous and Gideons's wife must return home to ensure the safety of their surviving child. Dutch. Codice articolo 10057655
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Very good. One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions coexisted tenuously with one of the most violent cultures on earth, often with startling pockets of tenderness and extreme brutality appearing where least expected. Into this world flowed a small tribe of adventurers, fugitives, criminals, and saints-- the madly talented and simply mad. And the women wives and would-be wives, spinster nursemaids and heartless schemers, the rigidly virtuous and the virtually desperate. And always, the children, innocents too often the victims of an elemental nature both lush and deadly. Kalimantaan is the story of this world, these people. But the deeper story resides in the realm of the heart. It is about love in absurd conditions, the tenacity of it as well as our ability to miss it repeatedly and with perverse genius. 480 pages. Codice articolo 1489395
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