Author: Boon Lim OngPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Ong Tiang Swee of Sarawak
Author: Boon Lim OngPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Ong Tiang Swee of Sarawak
Author: Boon Lim OngPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Sarawak Government Gazette
Author: SarawakThe Constitutional and Legal History of Sarawak: Peoples' law making and Brooke rule
Author: Alex Cuthbert CastlesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Men of Sarawak
Author: A. M. CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Biographies of men prominent in the formation and development of Sarawak.
Fair Land Sarawak
Author: Alastair MorrisonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501718800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
An officer's first-person account of British colonial disengagement from Sarawak. Morrison explains the daily bureaucracy of colonial life from an inside perspective and details the changes that occurred during his years in Sarawak: the growth and expansion of Communist movements, the emerging modernization of various districts, and the formation of Malaysia.
Our Sarawak
Author: The Singapore and Straits Directory
Author: Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters
Author: Philip EadePublisher: Picador
ISBN: 1250045908
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF SYLVIA BROOKE, THE LAST WHITE RULER OF THE JUNGLE KINGDOM OF BORNEO Sylvia Brooke was one of the more exotic and outrageous figures of the twentieth century. Otherwise known as the Ranee of Sarawak, she was the wife of Sir Vyner Brooke, the last White Rajah, whose family had ruled the jungle kingdom of Sarawak on Borneo for three generations. They had their own flag, revenue, postage stamps, and money, as well as the power of life and death over their subjects—Malays, Chinese, and headhunting Dyak tribesmen. The regime of the White Rajahs was long romanticized, but by the 1930s, their power and prestige were crumbling. At the center of Sarawak's decadence was Sylvia, author of eleven books, mother to three daughters, an extravagantly dressed socialite whose behavior often offended and usually defied social convention. Sylvia did her best to manipulate the line of succession in favor of her daughters, but by 1946, Japan had invaded Sarawak, sending Sylvia and her husband into exile, ending one of the more unusual chapters of British colonial rule. Philip Eade's Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters is a fascinating look at the wild and debauched world of a woman desperate to maintain the last remains of power in an exotic and dying kingdom.
Monkeying in Malaysia!
Author: Adeline FooPublisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9810794207
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
After a successful fundraising effort, I was off to Sarawak, Malaysia with my bros Alvin and Anthony for an exciting jungle trek! And, more importantly, I’d get to see my dear friend Jolin. (Mum calls her the “object of my infatuation”.) Our guide, Jolin’s weird “jungle man” Uncle Jufri, warned us to never let our guard down, for the rainforest is full of secrets and surprises. After getting drenched in a thunderstorm, and some icky encounters with mussels, toads, leeches and ants, we thought we’d seen and survived it all. But then there were those footprints, BIGGER THAN A HUMAN’S, that just couldn’t be explained.