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Hardcover reprint of the original 1913 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Brooke, Margaret, Lady. My Life In Sarawak. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Brooke, Margaret, Lady. My Life In Sarawak, . London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1913.
Margaret de Windt, who married Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, in 1869, describes her adventurous and lonely life as Ranee of that wild and remote land.
Substantial critical attention has been paid in recent years to the ways in which English-language children's fiction of the long 18th century reflected diverse adult anxieties and social concerns. This volume offers a selection of stories encountered by young readers, written by Irish authors and published between 1765 and 1808.
From the early phases of modern missions, Christian missionaries supported many humanitarian activities, mostly framed as subservient to the preaching of Christianity. This anthology contributes to a historically grounded understanding of the complex relationship between Christian missions and the roots of humanitarianism and its contemporary uses in a Middle Eastern context. Contributions focus on ideologies, rhetoric, and practices of missionaries and their apostolates towards humanitarianism, from the mid-19th century Middle East crises, examining different missionaries, their society’s worldview and their networks in various areas of the Middle East. In the early 20th century Christian...