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James Brooke

1803–1868

James Brooke was a British adventurer who became the first White Rajah of Sarawak in 1841 after assisting the sultan of Brunei. He ruled a personal dynasty on Borneo, fought piracy and local opponents, and became a controversial figure in debates over private empire and colonial violence.

George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman’s Lady places James Brooke within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, military command and battlefield decision-making, and exploration, travel and cultural encounter.

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The Flashman Papers in Order

by George MacDonald Fraser 12 books 4.2

The Flashman Papers present the supposed memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the bully expelled from Rugby School in Tom Brown’s School Days who becomes a decorated Victorian soldier despite being a coward, liar, opportunist and sexual predator. George MacDonald Fraser places this fictional witness inside documented nineteenth-century…

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