Looking for Adventure - Softcover

Explorer is the gripping story of how, through three journeys into the wilds of Papua New Guinea, Steve Backshall realised his childhood dream of becoming an explorer. As he and the team discovered species new to science while filming the BBC's 'Lost Land of the Volcano', he felt that, for the first time, and despite all the setbacks, he'd succeeded.

There were a lot of adventures and close shaves along the way

Steve has been an author for Rough Guides, lived in Japan for a year to study martial arts, has climbed Himalayan peaks like the 27,000 foot Cho Oyu, ran the 150 mile Marathon des Sables through the Sahara and, in 2008, broke his back in a climbing accident. He can also write.

In Explorer he vividly brings to life the sights, sounds and smells of one of the last great undiscovered wildernesses on earth: Papua New Guinea. And through a page-turning adventure narrative, weaves in the history, geography, botany and biology of this extraordinary place, where, on occasions, he's been the first white man ever seen by the people he¿s encountered. PNG is wild; an extreme place. And this is extreme travel-writing.

Steve is a writer who, as his profile, is going to become a brand name.