Finding Myself in Borneo, Neill McKee
Finding Myself in Borneo, Neill McKee
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Finding Myself in Borneo
Sojourns in Sabah

Author: Neill McKee

Narrator: Chris Kayser

Unabridged: 6 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lantern Audio

Published: 01/13/2020

Synopsis

Finding Myself in Borneo: Sojourns in Sabah 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 established 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sylvia on January 18, 2019

My daughter Sylvia and I very much enjoyed this book, although reading it gave us the impression that we “have not done much!” The book exudes a tremendous picture of youthful energy. The emphasis is always on the adventure, and is not merely a chronicle of the problems which the author inevitably e......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on February 25, 2019

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. All opinions are my own. A journey of self discovery leads to fascinating discoveries in author Neil McKee’s “Finding Myself in Borneo: Sojourns in Sabah. Here is the synopsis. The Synopsis Finding Myself in Borneo is an hone......more

Goodreads review by Fiona on February 01, 2019

Finding Myself In Borneo is a colorful memoir with a difference! The book is described as author Neill McKee's honest and buoyant chronicle of a young Canadian man's adventures during 1968-70, while teaching secondary school as a CUSO (Canadian University Service Overseas) volunteer in Sabah, Malays......more

Goodreads review by Sanjeeda on September 12, 2019

In Finding Myself in Borneo by Neill McKee takes the readers on a time travel of Borneo of the late1960s when he landed there on a teaching assignment in a secondary school as a CUSO volunteer. With adventure in his blood, McKee dared himself to explore the remote and inaccessible places while he ha......more

Goodreads review by Bruce on May 26, 2019

Borneo is one of those places that immediately evokes a sense of exocitism, adventure, mystery. No matter that now Kota Kinabalu is filled with malls and expressways. Neill McKee captures a period of time in Sabah that was ripe in promise and hope five years after achieving independence by becoming......more

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