Agnes Keith
Agnes Keith was a young and promising journalist in San Francisco in November 1934 when she was savagely mugged by a drug addict with a two foot iron pipe on the doorstep of the San Francisco Examiner. During her long recovery from the resultant skull fractures, loss of memory and eyesight damage, she travelled a lot and on her return to California, somewhat restored, she met an Englishman, Harry Keith, whom she married and settled down to live with in Sandakan in N Borneo. Miraculously, she...See more
Agnes Keith was a young and promising journalist in San Francisco in November 1934 when she was savagely mugged by a drug addict with a two foot iron pipe on the doorstep of the San Francisco Examiner. During her long recovery from the resultant skull fractures, loss of memory and eyesight damage, she travelled a lot and on her return to California, somewhat restored, she met an Englishman, Harry Keith, whom she married and settled down to live with in Sandakan in N Borneo. Miraculously, she seems to have made a full recovery from her head injuries and to have regained all of her writing talents, which she lavished on three-books about her life in Borneo before, during and after the Second World War. See less
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Agnes Keith book reviews
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Land Below the Wind
Humorous and Descriptive of Borneo
by Gouramis, Jan 26, 2012
This "Land Below the Wind" is the prequel to the Keith's capture by the Japanese and worlds away from the drums of war and civilization. I first read Keith's book "Three Came Home" a number of years ... Read More
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Beloved Exiles
Interesting
by maggi2, Mar 4, 2010
Had only heard negative reviews about this book. Knowingly, Agnes Keith was a writer of fact. However, this her one and only novel appears to me to be book of Faction. There are dinstinct elements of ... Read More
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Three Came Home
Could Happen Again
Torture, inhumanity and female courage mark this WWII recollection of life as a POW of the Japanese in Borneo taken from hidden notes and postwar interviews with other survivors. This is another ... Read More