Finding Myself in Borneo (eBook)

Sojourns in Sabah

Neill McKee (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
260 Seiten
Nbfs Creations LLC (Verlag)
978-1-7329457-2-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Bronze, 2020 Independent Publisher Book Award Best Regional Non-Fiction: Australia / New Zealand / Pacific RimWinner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards 2019 for non-regional Biography / Autobiography / MemoirHonorable Mention, Readers' Favorite Awards 2019 in the travel book categoryFinding Myself in Borneo is an honest and buoyant chronicle of a young Canadian man's adventures during 1968-70, while teaching secondary school as a CUSO volunteer in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo). Travel with Neill McKee on his unique journey through vibrant Asian cultures as he learns the craft of teaching, the Malay language and local customs, and gains many friends in his small community. He climbs the highest peak in Southeast Asia-Mount Kinabalu, has a love affair, and navigates Borneo's backwaters to make his first of many documentary films. McKee travels by freighter to Indonesia, where he discovers the scars of that country's recent genocide, a contrast to his hilarious motorcycle journeys in Sabah with his American Peace Corps buddy. They make a hallucinogenic discovery-North Borneo is, indeed, J. R. R. Tolkien's famed Middle-Earth of The Lord of the Rings! The enterprising duo establish the North Borneo Frodo Society, an organization Tolkien joins. McKee's second Sabah sojourn and other return trips offer the reader the opportunity to match the early anecdotes to what in fact happened to the land and people who touched his life, and he theirs.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments 

1. Travel Notes: Ontario to Singapore 

2. Lessons in Kota Belud 

3. The Rain at Four 

4. A Journey through Middle-Earth 

5. Bonding with Borneo 

6. Going Native 

7. Dog Days 

8. Borneo through a New Lens 

9. Unpacking the Batik Painting 

10. Blessing the Prodigal Son 

11. Rounding a Bend in the Road 

12. The Sabah Situation 

13. Serendipity 

14. Paradise Lost 

15. You Can Go Home Again 

16. No Longer “The Land Below the Wind” 

Postscript: A Brief History of North Borneo 

Illustrations 

Chapter Notes 

Works Cited 

Glossary of Malay Words and Expressions Used 

North Borneo Frodo Society 

About the Author 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.1.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Adventure Travel • Asia politics and history • Autobiography • CUSO International • environmentalists • Nonfiction • North Borneo Frodo Society • Personal Growth • Sabah Malaysia • Southeast Asia • Tolkien • Travel Memoir
• ISBN-10: 1-7329457-2-1 / 1732945721
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7329457-2-2 / 9781732945722