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Kalimantan

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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 results: 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 followed: 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.

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Call Number

813 God k

Publisher

London : Abacus., 1999

Collation

472 pp.; ill.; 13,5 x 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-349-11069-7

Classification

813

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Edition

First Edition

Subject(s)

Historical Fiction
Kalimantan

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Statement of Responsibility

C. S. Godshalk

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