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It was built upon the ruined foundations of the original house that was destroyed during the war. The house became home to Agnes and her family, Henry (also referred to as Harry) George Keith, who was the Conservator of Forests, and their son, George. When the Keith’s left Sabah in 1952, the house was occupied by subsequent Conservators of ...
During World War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak.Director: Jean Negules...
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Agnes Keith (July 4, 1901 – March 30, 1982) was born in Illinois, USA. Prior to sailing for Borneo, she married to Henry Keith, known as Harry in 1934. Harry was Conservator of Forests and Director of Agriculture for the government of North Borneo under the Chartered Company and was also Honorary Curator of the State Museum.
Land Below the Wind. Hardcover – January 1, 1940. by Agnes Newton Keith (Author) 4.7 31 ratings. See all formats and editions. The author is the wife of a British Foreign Service man and tells of living in Borneo and Malaysia in the years before World War II. It is the first narrative account of life in the then fledgling state of North Boreno.
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As Agnes Keith, whose writing forms the focal point of this book, credibly surmises, Borneo remained, even towards the end of the colonial period, a dark and mysterious land to people in the West, largely populated, as they imagined, by tribes of headhunters. At its core, this book questions the very concept of “colonial” writing and, by ...
Agnes Newton Keith. 3.93. 60 ratings6 reviews. In this moving and civilised book, Mrs. Keith, with her young son George, joins her husband in Sandakan, North Borneo, which they had all let as prisoners of the Japanese. Genres Nonfiction Memoir. Hardcover. First published January 1, 1951. Book details & editions.
Agnes Keith House. This atmospheric two-storey colonial villa, Newlands, tells the story of American writer Agnes Keith and her British husband Harry, the Conservator of Forests in North Borneo. They lived in Sandakan from 1934 to 1952 and spent three years in Japanese internment camps during WWII. The house was immortalised by Keith in her ...
