Humorous story of adjustments to life in Borneo, by a Californian.
Trilogia del Borneo Serie
Questa trilogia autobiografica offre uno sguardo intimo sulla vita nel Borneo settentrionale, l'attuale Sabah, durante il turbolento periodo precedente, durante e dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. L'autore cattura con sensibilità le trasformazioni del paesaggio e della società, rivelando esperienze personali e narrando storie di resilienza e adattamento. I lettori si immergeranno nella storia e nella cultura della regione attraverso testimonianze personali avvincenti. Questa è una lettura affascinante per gli interessati alla storia, ai viaggi e alle potenti storie umane.
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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