Humorous story of adjustments to life in Borneo, by a Californian.
Borneo trilógiaSéria
Táto autobiografická trilógia ponúka intímny pohľad na život v Severnom Borneu, dnešnom Sabahu, v búrlivom období pred, počas a po druhej svetovej vojne. Autor s citom zachytáva premeny krajiny i spoločnosti, odhaľuje osobné skúsenosti a rozpráva príbehy o odolnosti a adaptácii. Čitatelia sa ponoria do histórie a kultúry regiónu prostredníctvom pôsobivých osobných svedectiev. Ide o fascinujúce čítanie pre záujemcov o históriu, cestovanie a silné ľudské príbehy.
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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
