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 Into the Heart of Borneo is a funny yet informative account of a 1983 journey to the center of Borneo made by O'Hanlon, a naturalist; his close friend, the poet James Fenton; and three native guides. On the one hand it is a classically shaped travel story; a long river voyage into the far interior of a tropical jungle. On the other, it is a side-splitting history of how five intrepid but ill-matched travelers survived the wild boar tick, the river rapids, and other hazards of jungle life to reach the very center of Borneo, where they taught the friendly Ukit tribe a new craze - the seven-step disco. "Within this intrepid travelogue lies the soul of Monty Python...Every misstep of the way, O'Hanlon employs a dry, self-deprecating style that cannot disguise the team's gift for fresh and arresting description."
--Time  (11/87)
ZT5405 Into the Heart of Borneo $12.00
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