Fair Land Sarawak : Some Recollections of an Expatriate Officer

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. 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