The White Rajah

by Nicholas Monsarrat

Book Overview

The breathtaking island of Makassang, in the Java Sea, is the setting for this tremendous historical novel. It is a place both splendid and savage, where piracy, plundering, and barbarism are rife.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0000CL577
• Release Date: January 1961
• Publisher: William Sloane
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Sir James Marriott the Lucinda D. slavery in Asia

a great novel of the western and Oriental mind, of Slavery and ships that sale from Asia . This book is a fast read and the writer brings details and events clearly to your mind. Cruelty and the carrying trade as it was called ..from 1850 to 1861 an inheritance of a life that the hero would not have chosen.