White Man Returns

Agnes Keith Trilogy: Land Below the Wind; Three Came Home & White Man Returns.Three books written by an American journalist married to an English government officer in British North Borneo. The first book is an idyll covering the late 1930′s. The second covers internment and brutality by the Japanese during the Second World War. The third covers the return to a war-devastated colony. Three totally different situations, all illuminated by Agnes K’s engaging, perceptive, objective style of highly detailed observation of the people around her. The Agnes Keith Trilogy: -Land Below the Wind; Three Came Home & White Man Returns. All reprinted by Natural History Publications (Borneo) between 1998 & 2001. All 150 x 200mm (6 x 8″), softcover. White Man Returns has a valuable six page introduction and perspective to all three volumes by Patricia Regis (formerly Director of the Sabah State Museum). LBTW, pp371, first published November 1939, Borneo Books book #320; TCH, pp260, first published 1946, Borneo Books #691; White Man Returns, pp310, Borneo Books #1350, first published 1951. [see BBooks review]