Into The Heart Of Borneo

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: The Salamander Press
Publisher Place: Edinburgh
Publisher Year: 1984
Edition: First Edition

Description: 191 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. An Account Of A Journey Made In 1983 To The Mountains Of Batu Tiban With James Fenton.

Publishers Description: This is a classically-shaped travel story: a very long river voyage into the far interior of a tropical jungle towards an unexplored mountain range. A journey inspired by Joseph Conrad, it is framed by a knowledge of the great Borneo naturalists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Hose and William McDougall, Robert Shelford. It includes a changing portrait of the greatest English poet of his generation, James Fenton, a jungle in himself. Sponsored by the Sunday Times, advised and equipped by 22 SAS, and setting out with the blessing of the University of Oxford, the British Museum (Natural History) and the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, the two-man expedition, with three Sea Dyak trackers, reached, much to their surprise, the Tiban massif in the very centre of Borneo, an area unvisited since Mjobergs expedition (and then only from the Indonesian side) in 1926. Redmond OHanlon writes with wit, and wears his learning lightly.

ISBN: 0907540554