Finding Eden: A Journey into the Heart of Borneo

Description

Fifty years ago the interior of Borneo was once a pristine, virgin rainforest inhabited by uncontacted indigenous tribes and naïve, virtually tame, flora and fauna. It was once into this ‘Garden of Eden’ that Robin Hanbury Tenison led one of the vital largest ever Royal Geographical Society expeditions, an odd undertaking which triggered the global rainforest movement and illuminated, for the first time, how vital rainforests are to our planet. For 15 months, Hanbury Tenison and a team of one of the crucial greatest scientists on this planet immersed themselves in a place and an approach to life that may be on the cusp of extinction. Much of what was once once a flora and fauna paradise is now a monocultural desert, devastated by logging and the forced settlement of nomadic tribes, where traditional ways of life and unimaginably rich and diverse species are slowly being driven to extinction. It is a story for our time, one that reminds us of the fragility of our planet and of the urgent wish to preserve the last untamed places of the world.

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Arts and Photography » History and Criticism » History » Asia » Indonesia » Borneo » Finding Eden: A Journey into the Heart of Borneo

Recent Products