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The Fork Once Taken is a collection of memoriesavignettesaof an experience that took place forty-two years agoabetween 1963 and 1965. It is about a place, its flora, fauna and peoplesatheir lives and customs; and a time of political change; the shedding of its British colonial rule, the becoming of the independent State of Sabah; and a few weeks later, becoming incorporated within the Federated States of the nation of Malaysia. Sabah is a place, a state of great beauty in her jungles, mountains, rivers. It was a place of terror for those who lived there during the years of World War II, and a place of rapid recovery and sky-rocketing economic growth in the post-war period of neo-colonial development. Through a glimpse of the past, the author hopes the reader will gain some better understanding of this wonderful corner of Southeast Asia.
In the guise of telling the story of Alley's, the author has also illuminated island history and the unsettling but inevitable process of change.
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