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Kalimantaan: C.S. Godshalk
Kalimantaan: C.S. Godshalk
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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. 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.
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1st edition by Little Brown and Company 1998; dust jacket is not price-clipped with light cornerwear; tightly bound and clean within, Modern LiteratureShare
