Agnes Keith historic home

Agnes keith home

 Agnes Keith wooden house in Castle Street Sandakan is one of the main tourist attractions of the city.

Perhaps many people are wondering who is like the owner of the premises using the English name of the lucky ones as immortalized in the house has a British colonial design.

The house was also called by the name Newlands was once inhabited by an American-born writer, Agnes Keith in 1939 is known for its books Land Below The Wind or State Below The Wind.

Late work has been preaching Sabah until today that any book that clearly tells about the life of local communities natives of Sabah and natural beauty during the British rule at the time.

After that, Agnes wrote two other books titled Three Came Home in 1946 and White Man Returns in 1951.

The books were written in the house reading room space, located in the hills of the city center can be seen to the beauty of Sandakan Bay and the Sulu Sea.

The author arrived in Sandakan in 1934 following her husband, George Keith Hanry who worked as Conservation Forest.

Her husband had lived in Sandakan since 1925 before the marriage to Agnes Keith.

After the couple Keith and their children left Sabah in 1952, the house continued to be the residence of several forest conservation with Tom Bayles, the last being in 1968.