An intrepid adventurer, Mark has spent the last decade traveling areas left ominously blank on maps. This is the story of his malaria-wracked expedition across central Borneo. Once again he defies cartographers by going in search of the 'wild men of Borneo'-a tribe of jungle dwellers whose existence is validated only by myth. With fellow traveler Paul he paddles up an uncharted river into what was believed to be the valley of the spirit world-where even the island's fiercest head hunters fear to go. Crossing treacherous mountains that no Western eye has ever seen, they penetrate ever deeper into the inhospitable jungle. On the way they encounter shipwrecks, malaria, amoebic dysentery, near-starvation, leeches, exhaustion, enforced alcohol abuse, a barbecued mouse-deer foetus and a ferocious craving for chocolate.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'Mark's unique blend of enthusiasm and humour is genuinely absorbing and immensely readable' Global Adventure Jan 2000 'Mark has the kind of itchy feet which will take more than a bucket of Johnson's baby talc to cure...he has not only stared death in the face, he has poked him in the ribs and insulted his mother.' Observer
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Much Wenlock
Großbritannien
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Höhe: 194 mm
Breite: 136 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-9530575-6-6 (9780953057566)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Mark Eveleigh was brought up in West Africa, where he considered his life to be very much removed from the adventure stories of Willard Price and Gerald Durrell, and besides there didn't seem to be a niche in the market for explorers anymore. Nevertheless he left a job he could see was going nowhere and in his late teens set off travelling and spent the next decade on the road, working intermittently to raise the next airfare. As is so often the case, money was the limiting factor in how far off the beaten track he could go, until Heineken Export offered him a 'wildest dreams' travel bursary to reach the parts other explorers had not reached. And thus the Borneo trip was born. Mark currently lives in Madrid where he spends his time writing and planning the next adventure.
