Fair Land Sarawak : : Some Recollections of an Expatriate Officer / / Alastair Morrison.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Morrison, Alastair,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 p.) :; 45 B&W photographs
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; FOREWORD --; 1. THE BACKDROP --; 2. EARLY DAYS—SARIKEI AND BINATANG --; 3. LAWAS --; 4. KANOWIT --; 5. BARAM --; 6. THE SECRETARIAT --; 7. THE INFORMATION OFFICE --; 8. ESTABLISHMENT OF MALAYSIA --; 9. THE LAST LAP --; BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501718809; 9783110649680; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501718809
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alastair Morrison.

An officer's first-person account of British colonial disengagement from Sarawak. Morrison explains the daily bureaucracy of colonial life from an inside perspective and details the changes that occurred during his years in Sarawak: the growth and expansion of Communist movements, the emerging modernization of various districts, and the formation of Malaysia.