Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo Paperback - 2000
by Eric Hansen
Eric Hansen was the first westerner to ever walk across the island of Borneo.In this book, Hansen provides an intimate look at a vanishing way of life forone of the last surviving groups of rain forest dwellers. Photos and map.
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IN AUGUST 1976 I was faced with a simple choice: to fly directly from Djakarta to Singapore or to go to Singapore by way of Kuching, Sarawak, on the island of Borneo.
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Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled nearly 1,500 miles with small bands of nomadic hunters known as Penan. Beneath the rain forest canopy, they trekked through a hauntingly beautiful jungle where snakes and frogs fly, pigs climb trees, giant carnivorous plants eat mice, and mushrooms glow at night.
At once a modern classic of travel literature and a gripping adventure story, Stranger in the Forest provides a rare and intimate look at the vanishing way of life of one of the last surviving groups of rain forest dwellers. Hansen's absorbing, and often chilling, account of his exploits is tempered with the humor and humanity that prompted the Penan to take him into their world and to share their secrets.
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- Title Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
- Author Eric Hansen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date November 14, 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780375724954 / 0375724958
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.94 x 5.28 x 0.57 in (20.17 x 13.41 x 1.45 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress subjects Sarawak - Description and travel, Hansen, Eric - Travel - Malaysia - Sarawak
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00029008
- Dewey Decimal Code 915.954
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Citations
- New York Times, 12/17/2000, Page 36
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