Humorous story of adjustments to life in Borneo, by a Californian.
Bornejská trilogieSérie
Tato autobiografická trilogie nabízí intimní pohled na život v Severním Borneu, dnešním Sabahu, v bouřlivém období před, během a po druhé světové válce. Autor s citem zachycuje proměny krajiny i společnosti, odhaluje osobní zkušenosti a vypráví příběhy o odolnosti a adaptaci. Čtenáři se ponoří do historie a kultury regionu skrze působivá osobní svědectví. Jedná se o fascinující čtení pro zájemce o historii, cestování a silné lidské příběhy.
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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
