CALEB JACKSON
CHABAI: A Children's Story of a Boy and Dog in Sabah
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(Caleb Jackson March 15, 2015)
, 2 edition
Set in Sabah, a country in Borneo, above the Equator, off the east coast of Malaysia, this is a story about a boy and his dog, Chabai, which means Pepper, and their adventures around the town of Sandakan.
There are no head hunters left in Borneo, but there is a kidnapping by pirates, visits to the Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre, the Gomantong Bird Nest Caves, the Kinabalu National Park and a trek to the summit of the highest mountain in South East Asia, the towering 13,600ft high Mount Kinabalu.
The story is peopled with a rich tapestry of races: colourful Malays, horse-riding Bajaus, seafaring Sulus, forest Ibans and mountain Kedazans, Hakka, Hokkien, Cantonese and Szechuan Chinese; Tamils, Indonesians, Filipinos and a few Europeans, including four English children who live in ‘Newlands’, the house of Agnes Keith, the author of ‘Land Below the Wind’.
There are no head hunters left in Borneo, but there is a kidnapping by pirates, visits to the Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre, the Gomantong Bird Nest Caves, the Kinabalu National Park and a trek to the summit of the highest mountain in South East Asia, the towering 13,600ft high Mount Kinabalu.
The story is peopled with a rich tapestry of races: colourful Malays, horse-riding Bajaus, seafaring Sulus, forest Ibans and mountain Kedazans, Hakka, Hokkien, Cantonese and Szechuan Chinese; Tamils, Indonesians, Filipinos and a few Europeans, including four English children who live in ‘Newlands’, the house of Agnes Keith, the author of ‘Land Below the Wind’.
- Pages
- 128