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| Books LLC : Books About Countries (Study Guide): Stranger in the Forest, A Little Tour in France, Brazilian Adventure, Fire in the Lake, Not On Our Watch | |
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Books About Countries (Study Guide): Stranger in the Forest, A Little Tour in France, Brazilian Adventure, Fire in the Lake, Not On Our Watch |
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English |
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Paperback |
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42 |
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2010-09-14 |
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1157230229 |
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Books LLC |
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0.16 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.08 inches |
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Stranger in the Forest, A Little Tour in France, Brazilian Adventure, Fire in the Lake, Not On Our Watch, Vamos a Cuba, El Perú, Chronicle of Malaysia, Eesti mõttelugu, Imperial Reckoning, Brasil: Nunca Mais, The Discovery of France, Kitab al-Buldan, Gifts of Unknown Things,. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Stranger in the forest (subtitle: on foot across Borneo) is a 1988 book by Eric Hansen about a seven months and 4000 km long journey (of which 2300 km on foot) through the heartland of Borneo in 1982. Hansen was the first westerner to walk across the island. He did so largely with the aid of local Penan, who took him away from the rivers, the most used transportation routes in Borneo, to walk through the forest. The journey started in Marudi in Sarawak, Malaysia, at the northwest coast of the island. When, after an illegal border-crossing, he eventually emerged near the east coast in Kalimantan, Indonesia, the confrontation with western civilisation gave him such a culture shock that he turned around for another crossing of the island, during the 'season of fear'. What I wanted from my journey was something so far beyond my comprehension that I would have to step completely out of my skin to understand and become a part of my surroundings."Hansen had spent many years preparing for the journey, through research at the University of California, which also had a complete collection of the Sarawak Museum Journals from 1912 onwards. His aim was to cross the island, following old trade routes, collecting jungle products and medicinal plants of value, and exchanging these and western goods for what he needed. This was based on what he had learned during a visit six years earlier. But when he arrived it turned out he w...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13630713
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