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The Agnes Keith house is furnished simply with reproduction of colonial furniture and genuine antiques. A gallery on first floor tells the story of this remarkable woman, her books and family. A Keith Time-line starts in 1873 and ends in 2004 tracing the past to the present Keith generation. War artefacts are also displayed.
Agnes Keith’s Land Below the Wind (1939) is an autobiographical semi-fictional novel written based on. her life in Sa ndakan, No rth B orneo. It prov ides a detailed ac count of her joyful ...
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.
27 de jun. de 2021 · Agnes, an American, along with her husband, Harry Keith, a British official assigned for forest conservation here, first built the house between 1946 and 1947 on the site of a destroyed home following the Japanese invasion several years earlier. The couple had been living at another house since 1934 when it was destroyed during the war.
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 ...
AGNES NEWTON KEITH - LAND BELOW THE WIND 7/10 Book 9 of 2021. It was Agnes Keith who coined the term "Land Below the Wind" in 1939, chronicling her life experience living in North Borneo (Sabah) from 1934 to 1939 (first trip). Agnes spent an idyllic five years at Sandakan, sometimes accompanying her husband on trips into the interior of the ...
Excerpt: Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray (c. 1540 - 16 July 1588) was a Scottish noblewoman. She was the wife of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland and the illegitimate half-brother of Mary, Queen of Scots, making her a sister-in-law of the Scottish queen.
