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Thank you WOW! Women on Writing for the opportunity to read and review Finding Myself in Borneo and participate in a book blog tour to help promote this fabulous travel memoir! About the Book: Finding Myself in Borneo is an honest and buoyant chronicle of a young Canadian man's adventures during 1968-70, while teaching secondary school as a CUSO volunteer in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo). Travel with Neill McKee on his unique journey through vibrant Asian cultures as he learns the craft of teaching, the Malay language and local customs, and gains many friends in his small community. He climbs the highest peak in Southeast Asia—Mount Kinabalu, has a love affair, and navigates Borneo's backwaters to make his first of many documentary films. McKee travels by freighter to Indonesia, where he discovers the scars of that country's recent genocide, a contrast to his hilarious motorcycle journeys in Sabah with his American Peace Corps buddy. They make a hallucinogenic ...

Itching for a challenge when she turned 60, Jane Bertrand set out to reach the highest point of each state. Her strategic mistake was to start with the easiest ones, leaving the most strenuous for the end of this decade-long quest. She recruited over 50 family members, colleagues, and childhood friends to join her in this quest. Ostensibly a book about hiking and climbing, it captures the deep sense of friendship, further strengthened by bear sightings, lack of signage, lost GPS connectivity, muddy trails, snowfields, icy run-off, and tent loss encountered along the way. Paperback: 284 pages Publisher: Walnut Park Press (November 16, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1732847703 ISBN-13: 978-1732847705 You Started WHAT after 60? Highpointing across America  is now available to purchase on Amazon , Barnes & Noble , and IndieBound . About the Author: Jane T. Bertrand is a professor at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, where she splits he...

Itching for a challenge when she turned 60, Jane Bertrand set out to reach the highest point of each state. Her strategic mistake was to start with the easiest ones, leaving the most strenuous for the end of this decade-long quest. She recruited over 50 family members, colleagues, and childhood friends to join her in this quest. Ostensibly a book about hiking and climbing, it captures the deep sense of friendship, further strengthened by bear sightings, lack of signage, lost GPS connectivity, muddy trails, snowfields, icy run-off, and tent loss encountered along the way. Paperback: 284 pages Publisher: Walnut Park Press (November 16, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1732847703 ISBN-13: 978-1732847705 You Started WHAT after 60? Highpointing across America  is now available to purchase on Amazon , Barnes & Noble , and IndieBound . About the Author: Jane T. Bertrand is a professor at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, where she splits he...