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Borneo's economy depends mainly on agriculture, logging and mining, oil and gas, and ecotourism. [156] Brunei's economy is highly dependent on the oil and gas production sector, and the country has become one of the largest oil producers in Southeast Asia. The Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak are both top exporters of timber. [156]
The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. [ 2 ]
The list was compiled by a team of critics and editors at The New York Times and, with the input of 503 writers and academics, assessed the books based on their impact, originality, and lasting influence. The selection includes novels, memoirs, history books, and other nonfiction works from various genres, representing well-known and emerging ...
Three Came Home is a 1947 memoir written by Agnes Newton Keith, based on her experiences during the Japanese invasion of North Borneo.A film based on it was released in 1950 and featured Claudette Colbert in the lead role. [1]
Baker lives in New York City, where he is a contributing editor to and bi-monthly columnist for Harper's Magazine, [5] and a regular contributor to Politico.com, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The New York Times Book Review.
Agnes Newton Keith (born Agnes Jones Goodwillie Newton; July 4, 1901 – March 30, 1982) was an American writer best known for her three autobiographical accounts of life in North Borneo (now Sabah) before, during, and after World War II.
Carl Hoffman is a second generation native of Washington, D.C., a graduate of the District of Columbia public schools. Hoffman is the author of a five narrative non-fiction books about his own journeys and those of other contemporary travelers and explorers. Hoffman is a former contributing editor at Wired magazine, National Geographic Traveler, and Popular Mechanics, and has published ...
Buruma has contributed numerous articles to The New York Review of Books since 1985 [5] and has written for The Guardian. [6] He held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (1991) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. (1999), and he was an Alistair Horne fellow of St Antony's College in Oxford ...