Humorous story of adjustments to life in Borneo, by a Californian.
Trilogía de BorneoSerie
Esta trilogía autobiográfica ofrece una mirada íntima a la vida en Borneo del Norte, el Sabah actual, durante el turbulento período anterior, durante y posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El autor captura con sensibilidad las transformaciones del paisaje y la sociedad, revelando experiencias personales y relatando historias de resiliencia y adaptación. Los lectores se sumergirán en la historia y la cultura de la región a través de testimonios personales convincentes. Esta es una lectura fascinante para los interesados en la historia, los viajes y las historias humanas conmovedoras.
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When the Japanese swept through Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith was captured with her two-year-old son. Even though keeping notes was a capital offence, she wrote a diary on the backs of labels and in the margins of old newspapers, which she buried in tins or sewed inside her sons home-made toys. Unlike many other narrators of camp life, Agnes Keith gives an honest and rounded description of her Japanese captors. The camp commander, Colonel Suga, was responsible for a forced march which killed all but three out of 2,970 prisoners; yet he regularly took children for joy-rides in his car, stuffing them with sweets, and sent them back to camp with armfuls of flowers from his garden
