Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon - ISBN: 9780140073973
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Jungle adventure gone hilariously wrong: Rhinos, poets, and utter chaos.

Into the Heart of Borneo

An Account of a Journey Made In 1983 to the Mountains of Batu Tiban with Ja

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    5 September 1985

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Summary

Reissue of the classic, hilarious travel book which has sold over 81,000 copies in paperback to date.

‘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’Han…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140073973
ISBN-10:0140073973
Author:Redmond O'Hanlon
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Edition:1st
Release Date:5 September 1985
Weight:164g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 16mm
About The Author

Redmond O'Hanlon

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.

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