Owen Rutter, Triumphant Pilgrimage.

Rutter was a prolific British travel writer and novelist who lived part of his life in the British colony of North Borneo, now part of Malaysia. He wrote about the life of David Chale, the pseudonym of a colonial officer, who asked him to write about Chale's conversion to Islam, his marriage to a Malay Muslim woman and their pilgrimage to Mecca. Rutter conducted extensive interviews with Chale and his wife Munirah, and tried to tell the story of the pilgrimage from Chale's point of view, although his own editorial voice is very much in evidence.