Description
| This book relates how, after the release from captivity of Agnes Keith, her husband and her young son during the Japanese war in Borneo, they returned to the shattered British colony in North Borneo. She writes as a woman, as a wife and a mother, and her book is purely a personal experience story, related with a fine flair for detail and her keen sense of humour. White Man Returns is a sympathetic and sensitive story of the relationships between a devoted white family and the Chinese, the Indians, the Muruts and the Eurasians whom the Keiths in so many ways have tried to help. But above all, it is a record of the author’s own growth in understanding and love for her fellow human beings the world over. |
Table of Contents
- I. Introduction vii
- I. Rendezvous 3
- II. Retrospect 11
- III. Entrance to Asia 21
- IV. Borneo Family 28
- V. Brothers 54
- I. Land of Sabah 73
- II. Green Graves 86
- III. Honest Men 99
- IV. Angela 117
- V. To Have a Little Land 126
- I. Boy in Borneo 141
- II. Curry with Brotherly Love 151
- III. Tommy 160
- IV. Sailor Hat 170
- V. Rat Race 178
- I. Bird’s Nest Caves 195
- II. Return to the Jungle 209
- III. Rulers of the River 225
- IV. Turtle Islands 244
- I. My Enemy 259
- II. Everybody Has to Have a Friend 268
- III. Bitter Tears to Shed 279
- IV. This Happy Land 289
- V. Thunder 302
PART ONE—We Return
PART TWO—People Who Live in Grass Houses
PART THREE—Boy in Borneo
PART FOUR—Golden Rain
PART FIVE—Lightning in a Luminous Sky