Humorous story of adjustments to life in Borneo, by a Californian.
Borneo-TrilogieReihe
Diese autobiografische Trilogie bietet einen intimen Einblick in das Leben in Nord-Borneo, dem heutigen Sabah, während der turbulenten Zeit vor, während und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Der Autor fängt behutsam die Veränderungen der Landschaft und Gesellschaft ein, enthüllt persönliche Erfahrungen und erzählt Geschichten von Widerstandsfähigkeit und Anpassung. Die Leser tauchen durch eindringliche persönliche Zeugnisse in die Geschichte und Kultur der Region ein. Dies ist eine faszinierende Lektüre für Geschichts-, Reise- und starke menschliche Geschichten-Interessierte.
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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
