Summary of Defoe Gideon's An Atlas of Extinct Countries

By IRB Media

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#1 Brooke’s father was a soft touch, and he knew it. He had a knack for getting himself into trouble, though, and when he tried to travel to Borneo in the nineteenth century to bring order to the local chaos, he was accused of massacring innocents.

#2 The rule of the White Rajahs bumbled on, with the title passing to Brooke’s nephew, Charles, who did a decent job of getting the country back on its feet. Charles was succeeded by his son, Vyner, who had a difficult time of it. He had been forbidden from eating jam as a child because his father deemed it effeminate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822546639

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Brooke’s father was a soft touch, and he knew it. He had a knack for getting himself into trouble, though, and when he tried to travel to Borneo in the nineteenth century to bring order to the local chaos, he was accused of massacring innocents.

#2

The rule of the White Rajahs bumbled on, with the title passing to Brooke’s nephew, Charles, who did a decent job of getting the country back on its feet. Charles was succeeded by his son, Vyner, who had a difficult time of it. He had been forbidden from eating jam as a child because his father deemed it effeminate.

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Bavaria existed as part of the Holy Roman Empire for centuries, but it was only after Napoleon steamrollered Austria in 1805 that it became a kingdom. The relatively normal King Maximilian helped defeat the French and managed to expand the country’s borders as a reward for his