books by Agnes (Newton) Keith (before japan three)

books by Agnes (Newton) Keith

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Agnes Newton Keith

Northstar Audio Books Inc (a), 1989

Powerful
This book contains the wartime memoirs of Agnes Keith. In 1939, Keith published a book "Land Beneath the Wind," describing her life as the wife of a British colonial official in Northern Borneo. She and her husband Harry were on home leave in North America in 1939 when she finished writing the book. However, Harry was called back early to Borneo from his leave because of the war clouds on the ...

Three Came Home
Agnes Newton Keith

Natural History Publications, 1998

First published 1946, by Little Brown and Company, Boston, U.S.A.; printed in Malaysia.

Before the blossoms fall: Life and death in Japan

1 review
Agnes Newton Keith

Little, Brown, 1975

Before the Blossoms Fall
Added to my Agnes Newton Keith collection. Arrived in good shape and in a timely fashion. Thanks.

CHILDREN OF ALLAH.

1 review
Agnes Newton Keith

Michael Joseph, 1966

Children of Allah
Born to an arid and denuded land, Libyans all their lives are ruled by sea and Sahara, by coming of rain or of drought, by sandstorm or flood, by harvesting of cereals, or by famine for their flocks; and now in the century of Sahara wealth, by the flowing of oil from their sands. They feast all night and fast from the dawn for one month every year, and pray toward Mecca five times daily, and ...

WHITE MAN RETURNS

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Agnes Newton Keith

Little Brown & Co., 1951

Epilogue
This book contains the post-War Borneo memoirs of Agnes Keith. Keith, who had published a popular book, Land Beneath the Wind, about life as the wife of a colonial official in Northern Borneo in 1939, returned to Borneo in time to be interned by the Japanese. Her experiences in the Japanese prison camps were the topic of her second book, Three Came Home. This third book is about her return to ...