{"product_id":"finding-myself-in-borneo-sojourns-in-sabah-9781732945708","title":"Finding Myself in Borneo: Sojourns in Sabah","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBronze, 2020 Independent Publisher Book Award Best Regional Non-Fiction: Australia \/ New Zealand \/ Pacific Rim\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards 2019 for non-regional Biography \/ Autobiography \/ Memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of Readers' Favorite Awards 2019 in the travel book category\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinding Myself in Borneo\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/em\u003e  The enterprising duo establish the North Borneo Frodo Society, an organization Tolkien joins. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcKee'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nbfs Creations LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781732945708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.59d","brand":"Neill McKee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36667751661724,"sku":"9781732945708","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b57466f6-6361-43e2-8a4c-d6738fd770e3.jpg?v=1603915694","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/finding-myself-in-borneo-sojourns-in-sabah-9781732945708","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}