Silimpopon:... A Borneo Coal Mine... by... Ross Ibbotson... New. Few people realise that Borneo had a highly productive coal mine, supporting a community of 3,000 people in its heyday, for about 30 years from the beginning of the 20th century. Ibbotson, an established Borneo resident, beautifully brings this forgotten...
The Dulang Washer... by... Paul Callan... The author, an Irishman married to a Malaysian, has set his first novel in the tin-mining camps fo the Kinta Valley of Perak in the 1890s. The central character, Aisha, who pans the nine's streams for tin, attracts the interest of the camp's...
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