Land Below the Wind

Land Below the Wind (Reprint) Agnes Keith RM40 In Stock Buy Now Description This book was written during an era when Sabah was known as North Borneo, and when life was very much different from today’s. Reprinted many times, this classic, of Agnes Keith’s observations and reflections of the time, is a true-to-life record of society and culture then and of the captivating natural beauty of Sabah. Today, Sabah continues to be known as the “land below the wind”, a phrase used by seafarers in the past to describe all the lands south of the typhoon belt, but which Agnes effectively reserved for Sabah through her book. One of few written accounts of contemporary life in Borneo in the 1930s, this book is an invaluable record of a world gone by. Table of Contents MESSAGE by Tengku Datuk Dr Zainal Adlin viiFOREWORD by Patricia Regis ixINTRODUCTION THE NORTH BORNEO OF OLD by K.M. Wong xiAGNES KEITH IN BORNEO by John Macartney xvPart I THOSE WHO WERE NOT BORN THERE I. “LOOK UP THE FACTS!” 3 II. OUTPOST OF THE EMPIRE 17 III. WHAT DO THE WOMEN DO? 49 IV. GOVERNMENT HOUSE 59 V. VISITORS 68Part II VI. A SON IS BORN 89 VII. SULU SEA 117 VIII. A MAN OF THE RIVER GOES HOME 139 IX. SMALL-BOY 158 X. THEIR PRIVATE LIVES 175Part III WE EAT THE WIND XI. A PIONEER PREPARES 205 XII. A HUNDRED TEETH AND A HUNDRED EYES 229 XIII. A BLUE UMBRELLA 240 XIV. JUNGLE MUD 271 XV. A PIONEER RETURNS 305Part IV WINGS OF HOME XVI. WITH A SHINING STAR 329 XVII. THE HOUSE OF FRIENDS 331 XVIII. TWO PEOPLE WHOM I LIKE 345XIX. FEVER 353XX. HOME 362 XVIII. TWO PEOPLE WHOM I LIKE 345 XIX. FEVER 353 XX. HOME 362

Three Came Home (Reprint) Agnes Keith RM40 In Stock Buy Now Description This is a touching sequel to the first book, Land Below the Wind, where Keith wrote of her early impressions and experiences in Borneo. Three Came Home is as different as war is to peace. It recounts the internment of Agnes Keith and her son as prisoners-of-war during the Japanese Occupation of Borneo. It is an unforgettable journey of the human heart as the book weaves through periods of emotional despair, hatred, desperation, resignation, and finally, mere documentation of a war that changed the lives of thousands who lived through it. This story was written on pieces of paper stored in secret hiding places and assembled when Borneo was finally liberated. The end of the war did not bring the end of her relationship with Borneo. She returned and much later published White Man Returns, the concluding part of a trilogy on her life on this island. Table of Contents Foreword xi 1. TO US A SON 3 2. DARK HOURS 29 3. STRANGE NURSERY 45 4. MALARIA 70 5. HAPPY NEW YEAR 86 6. IMPRISONED SISTERS 96 7. WORKING MY WAY 117 8. GETTING RID OF PROUDERY AND ARROGANCE 142 9. SUGA BABIES AT PLAY 165 10. CHILDREN OF CAPTIVITY 180 11. THE ENEMY 193 12. ENDURANCE 211 13. LAST GASP 234 14. FALLEN ENEMY 254 15. OLD LADY 269 16. SEPTEMBER 11, 1945 278 17. ROAD HOME 289 18. THREE TOGETHER 303 http://www.fao.org/docrep/03500e/03500e0a.htm#TopOfPage Sabah (North Borneo) · Mount Kinabulu, which rises to a height of 13,450 feet (4,100 meters), is situated 30 miles inland from Jesselton, the capital of Sabah (formerly North Borneo). The montane flora of Kinabulu is of the greatest botanical interest singe in the higher reaches above the low lying dipterocarp forest typical of the Malaysian region there is an isolated area of subtropical and temperate life, separated by many hundreds of miles from its nearest relatives. Above the 9,000-foot (2,700-meter) contour there occur shrubs and herbs allied to forms in China and the Himalayan region (Photinia, Pygaeum, Rubus, Potentilla, Dahpniphyllum, for example, as well as gentians, violets and grasses). Among them grow plants allied to Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand (Ranunculus lowii, Drimys, Patersonia, Euphrasia and numerous sedges). Extending down to 4,000 feet (1,200 meters) is an ever greater mixture of Australian conifers (Agathis, Dacrydium, Phyllocladus) and myrtles (Leptospermum, Cunoniacae), with Eurasian oaks, chestnuts, laurels and tea-trees (Schima, Ternstroemia). Elsewhere on the mountain are forms which are allied to Malaya, Sumatra, Java and Mindanao. The mountain, in short, possesses an extraordinary array of extraneous elements together with its own peculiarities such as rhododendrons, pitcherplants (Nepenthes), figs and orchids. Yet there is a paucity of palms, pandans and special developments of extraneous genera. A recent outstanding achievement was the discovery on the eastern side of the mountain of a new genus (Trigonobalanus) of the oak family - a beech tree with oak leaves in tiers of three to seven nuts on acorn cups along a slender stalk. It is now known that it also occurs on Celebes and Malaya, with an ally in Thailand. This botanical "missing link" brings together the northern beeches, oaks and chestnuts as well as drawing in the southern beeches (Nothofagus) of South America, New Zealand, Australia and New Guinea. Borneo can be regarded as the hub of the world distribution of the oak family. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ http://www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk/Baldwin/html/war.htm -Unnecesary suffering of women and children -the European women stick it out though they could have left on the steamer (coastal) Baynain -Kuching -maps and cartoons in this accunt from Agnes Keith -Mary Baldwin's capture-David Baldwin exhaustedby overwork and poor rations and died -War Organization of the British Red Cross & Order of St. John of Jerusalem 13 August 1943 to Mrs Donald L Morrison, Edinburgh -David Baldwin's capture, engineer of SS Baynain -Tarakan oil rich Island captured by the Japanese -Innellan -Fepow story