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The Man Who Would Be King is a novella about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the first White Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo; and by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan, who was granted the title Prince of Ghor.
This book has 35 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1888.
Production notes: This ebook of The Man Who Would Be King was published by Global Grey in 2018.
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