Finding Myself in Borneo (ePub)
Winner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards 2019 for non-regional Biography / Autobiography / Memoir
Honorable Mention, Readers'...
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Bronze, 2020 Independent Publisher Book Award Best Regional Non-Fiction: Australia / New Zealand / Pacific Rim
Winner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards 2019 for non-regional Biography / Autobiography / Memoir
Honorable Mention, Readers' Favorite Awards 2019 in the travel book category
Finding 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.
McKee is busy creating two other memoirs, at present: a humorous and poignant one on his childhood and youth in a chemically polluted small town in Canada; and another on a 15,000-mile, 400-year search for the stories of his ancestors in North America, during which he met distant cousins, historians, and interesting characters to discuss the times and conflicts through which his blood relatives lived. The journey ends at Plymouth Plantation and the Mayflower.
McKee does readings/book signings and presentations with or without photos. He prefers lively interactive sessions.
- Autor: Neill Mckee
- 2019, 1. Auflage, 260 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: NBFS Creations LLC
- ISBN-10: 1732945721
- ISBN-13: 9781732945722
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.01.2019
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- Größe: 12 MB
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