Finding Myself in Borneo
Autor Neill Mckeeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 ian 2019
Winner in the travel book category of Readers' Favorite 2019 international contest
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781732945708
ISBN-10: 1732945705
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: NBFS Creations LLC
ISBN-10: 1732945705
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: NBFS Creations LLC
Notă biografică
Neill McKee is an award-winning creative nonfiction writer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His first travel memoir Finding Myself in Borneo: Sojourns in Sabah won the 2019 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for Biography / Autobiography / Memoir (for non-NM/AZ subject). It also won an honorable mention in the international Readers' Favorite Awards, 2019. McKee's book is about his first overseas adventures in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo), where he served as a Canadian CUSO volunteer teacher and program administrator during 1968-70 and 1973-74. McKee, who holds a B.A. Degree from the University of Calgary and a Masters in Communication from Florida State University, lived and worked in Asia, Africa, Russia and traveled to over 80 countries on assignments during his 45-year international career. He became an expert in communication for behavior and social change. McKee directed and produced of a number of award-winning documentary films/videos, animated films, and wrote a large number of articles, books, and manuals in the field of communication for international development.
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 13,000-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.
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 13,000-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.