Book description
We ve left a lot of men in Borneo know what I mean? With their
SAS trainer s warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond
O Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover the lost
rhinoceros of Borneo. They were loaded with enough back-breaking kit
to survive two months in a steaming 95 (in the shade) jungle of
creeping, crawling, biting things. O Hanlon could also rely on his
encyclopaedic knowledge of the region s flora and fauna, and had
read-up on how to avoid being eaten by anything (stick your thumbs in
a crocodile s eyes, if you have time). And yet they proceeded to have
an adventure that neither O Hanlon, nor his friend, nor even his
guides were remotely prepared for
Consistently exciting, often funny, and erudite without ever being
overwhelming Punch.
Redmond O'Hanlon is an explorer in the nineteenth-century mould. In
addition to his four bestselling travel books,
Into the Heart of Borneo
,
In Trouble Again
,
Congo Journey
and
Trawler
, he has published scholarly work on nineteenth-century science and
literature. For fifteen years he was the Natural History editor of the
Times Literary Supplement
. He lives outside Oxford with his wife and two children.
