Record details

• ISBN: 9781250045898
• Physical Description: xxi, 362 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
• Edition: First United States edition
• Publisher: New York : Picador, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Orignally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-350)and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1 Lonely Girl 1 -- 2 Left Lady 22 -- 3 Borneo Brooke and Little Barrie 41 -- 4 My Address is Sarawak, That's All 61 -- 3 Dynastic Dysfunction 79 -- 6 I Want Crowns Plastered Everywhere 92 -- 7 I See and I Calculate 113 -- 8 Doing the Things that Rajahs Have to Do 127 -- 9 By Jove What a Wonderful Fellow; But He's Nuts 147 -- 10 To Hell with Dignity 168 -- 11 Watch Out, Hollywood 189 -- 12 I Just Won't Have No Said to Me 207 -- 13 You in Kuching Must Stand and Eight 228 -- 14 Reluctant Rajah 249 -- 15 Racy Ranee 267 -- 16 Isn't Old Age Awful? 285.

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Subject:

Sylvia, Ranee, consort of Vyner, Rajah of Sarawak, 1885-1971.
English > Malaysia > Sarawak > Biography.
Queens > Malaysia > Sarawak > Biography.
Sarawak (Malaysia) > Kings and rulers > Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.