Twenty Years in Borneo
Cassell and Company, Ltd., London. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine canted. Frontis picture loose. Pages foxed but clean and unmarked. Back hinge starting. Memoir by a Englishman who served in the mid-ranks of the colonial regime in Malaya. Bruce shipped out in late 1901 as an office in the Armed Constabulary of North Borneo. After securing the position he set about obtaining, ...a vague idea of the whereabouts of Borneo. An average man on the imperial frontline: smallpox control duties, encounters with angry water buffaloes, overseeing executions, translating court testimony into English for the judge, policing the behavior of rowdies of various nationalities. *** 266pp. > Illustrator: B/w photos. Collectible: Acceptable. Item #CORV-SEA-02243
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