Reflections of a Curious Victorian Lady in North Borneo Andre R. Frattino Written in the aftermath of

Written in the aftermath of the death of the author's little sister

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Reflections of a Curious Victorian Lady in North Borneo Andre R. Frattino Written in the aftermath ofThis delightful and surprising book provides a window into the founding of Sabah through the eyes of a rather curious lady, Ada Blanche Pryer, who arrived in January 1884 as the wife of the first Resident of Sandakan. Ada is already well known by scholars of SE Asia for two earlier publications, the book A Decade in Borneo and her diaries, Mrs Pryer in Sabah, each of which extolled and tackled colonization through a different perspective from what we