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Lädt ... Kalimantaanvon Christina Godshalk
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A novel of the founding of a small kingdom on the north coast of Borneo. An Englishman sails in a small gunboat and takes over a small area, in the teeth of the Malay pirates and the sea Dyaks. This book was rich with fascinating detail, on the customs of the Dyaks and the fauna, and written in a very ornate style. There was rather too much brooding and introspection, women with tangled motives and emotions, and not as much narrative and adventure as I would have liked. Read slowly at the end of August, 1998. Amazingly well-written. Visually stunning. I initially found this novel difficult to get into, but I am happy to say that I persevered, and was well rewarded for my endeavors. This novel is at times so unflinchingly stark as to be harsh, but I love the play of "civility vs. primitiveness" that highlights the subtle nuances that shape and bind all of humanity. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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KALIMANTAAN - the old name for Borneo - is an epic novel about the founding of a small empire by an extraordinary man and a handful of his followers. It is also a beautifully written story about love surviving in the most hostile of circumstances. It is 1850 and a young Englishman, Gideon Barr, arrives in Borneo; within 10 years he has conquered an area the size of England and Wales, ruling through armies of tribal head-hunters. This is the story of Victorian social values superimposed on one of the most violent cultures on earth, of tenderness amid extreme brutality, and of a remarkable tribe of fugitives, missionaries, and romantics drawn to this remote outpost of the world. But the personal cost to Barr is enormous - he and his lovely wife, Amelia, lose three children to cholera and finally she has to return home to ensure the safety of their last surviving child. Full of fantastic descriptions of life in exotic conditions, this is a rare novel that immerses the reader in another, more wonderful world. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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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.