TREGONNING, K.G.; CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON S. (FOREWORD) — North Borneo

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Horton, Geraldine. Paints a picture of a "happy territory, between whose many peoples flows a broad generous stream of goodwill. A land of dense forests, creeks, swamps and high mountains dominated by sacred Mt. Kinabalu, North Borneo owes much of its prosperity to the individualism of its British administrators and the traders who operated the Chartered Company, planted rubber, grew cutch, rice and tobacco and are now probing the seabed in search of oilfields." - dust jacket. xiv, 272 pages. Reading list, glossary, index, colour fold-out map, many black and white photographic plates. Illustrated endpapers. Attractive dust jacket art by Geraldine Horton. Moderate wear to clean and unmarked book. Average wear to unclipped dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A sound example. ; Corona Library Series; Dust Jacket; 8vo. Good in Good dust jacket .