The Burthen, the Risk & the Glory: A Biography of Sir James Brooke

by Nicholas Tarling

474 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1982

About the author

Nicholas Tarling was Professor of History at the University of Auckland from 1968 until 1997 and a Fellow of its New Zealand Asia Institute. He was the editor of The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia and wrote nearly 50 books and a large number of articles on the region.