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Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo (Vintage Departures) - Softcover

Hansen, Eric

 
9780375724954: Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo (Vintage Departures)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0375724958 ISBN 13: 9780375724954
Verlag: Vintage, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

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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Eric Hansen lives in San Francisco, California.

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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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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0375724958
ISBN 13 
9780375724954
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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