From jacket flap:
In this memoir of Malaya, James Kirkup describes what happened to him during the year he lived there, teaching at the University of Kuala Lumpur and travelling wherever and whenever the spirit moved him. At first depressed and infuriated by the country, which he kept comparing unfavourably with his beloved Japan, it was only after he had learned something about its problems and the three races who lived there that his appreciation and affection grew. The book, like its author, is idiosyncratic, frank, non-conformist and engagingly uninhibited.
Contents include:
By Train Through Jungle
Kuala l’Impure
Caves, Markets, Temples
Malacca-Singapore
The White Man’s Burden
Flowers, Trees, Animals
A Cycle of Cathay
Kung Hi Fatt Choy!
Books and Journeys
The Champak Odours Fail
Feasting and Fasting
