In 1817, James Hastie, an East India Company sergeant, embarked on a perilous mission to the court of Radama, the warlike ruler of the most powerful kingdom in Madagascar. This is the first biography of a man whom Sir Mervyn Brown described as "one of the most important figures in the history of Anglo-Malagasy relations."
In 1817, James Hastie, an East India Company sergeant, embarked on a perilous mission to the court of Radama, the warlike ruler of the most powerful k...