Beschrijving
This book is in pursuit of Alice, whose name rhymes with galluse . That, however, is another memory, another book, waiting to germinate. John Lang (1816-1864), inebriated on John Exshaw, a cognac, eau de vie, most of his adult life, was a dogged underdog from Sydney; he spared no effort to hurt the John Company (East India Company). He lived in India after the age of 26 and was a prolific writer, journalist, and lawyer. His novels were too feminist for Victorian comfort, and his white male protagonists have been described by Lang a couple of times as \
