About this title: The story of Eric Hansen's astonishing 2,400 walk across Borneo, the third largest island in the world, and back again. Some of the area he covered is still marked "unknown" on modern maps. His account includes details of his contact with the Penan people, a shy tribe of forest nomads.
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780140095869ISBN:0140095861
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has very minor shelf wear, binding is tight and square, pages are unmarked. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Penguin Travel Library. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Abacus, London
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780349100937ISBN:0349100934
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. pages a bit yellowed; otherwise fine. [288]p.; 20 cm. Originally published: London: Century, 1988. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780395440933ISBN:0395440939
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. DUST JACKET WRAPPED IN MYLAR. BROWN HALF-CLOTH COVER WITH LIGHT STAINING. INTERIOR PAGES CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT STAMPED "DISCARD". FRONT END SHEET HAS CORNER CLIPPED. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780395440933ISBN:0395440939
Description: Good Plus in Fair jacket. 6 x 9 1/4 inches. Book is solid and tight, in Good Plus condition with a Fair dust jacket; text clean and unmarked, with no creased or torn pages; remainder mark; binding clean; edges of text block show very light spotting and a couple of small pencil marks; spine slightly cocked; jacket worn, torn, and lightly soiled, with an excised section at top front. 286 pp, b&w photos. An absorbing account of the author's trek, by foot, across Borneo, highlighting the Penan, one ... read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780395440933ISBN:0395440939
Description: Illustrated. Very Good in Very Good jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET WRAPPED IN MYLAR. TAN HALF-CLOTH COVER. INTERIOR PAGES CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT STAMPED "DISCARD". LIBRARY STICKER CUT FROM DUST JACKET. read more
Edition: First edition. Advance Reader's Copy, Paper
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780395440933ISBN:0395440939
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 286 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First
Binding: first
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780395440933ISBN:0395440939
Description: near fine, Good. 8vo, 286pp, Quarter bound with brown cloth spine, white lettering. Clean tight book with good jacket, some tears top and scuffs on bottom. read more
Edition: Book Club
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 1988
Description: Photographs. Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The interior is clean, binding is strong, there is mild wear to the cover. Some chipping to the dust jacket. read more
Edition: SECOND PRINT
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780395440933ISBN:0395440939
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. BIOGRAPHY. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 286 PAGES. BUTTERSCOTCH AND BROWN JACKET LIGHTLY RUBBED AT CORNERS. BOOK IS CLEAN, BRIGHT AND SECURE. read more
"You don't find many current travel writers heading off to the tropical rain forest of Borneo. I'm still not really sure why Hansen headed there. He seemed to like this place, despite deadly snakes, really inadequate toilet facilities, awful food (he mentions eating rotten fish many times), and scary tribal people. Maybe you gotta be there."
"I like books that can insert into the readers mind a way of thinking that is utterly foreign. The forest dwellers, viewed by westerners, are so utterly clueless, yet, this traveler sets ripples in motion in the forest that announce his presence to all the inhabitants. Their measure of 'distance' from one location to another, is actually measured in days. Beyond a few hundred yards, our notion of distance is unfathomable to them. There are no straight lines or predictable rates of travel in their forest. I wish I had the guts to have made such a trip-- I wouldn't be tempted now-- dont like the leaches and mosquitoes and snakes."
"If I could only recommend three books to an armchair traveller/adventurer, they would be "Endurance", "Into Thin Air", and Eric Hansen's "Stranger in the Forest". Borneo is one of the planet's last unexplored mysteries, and this book is full of fascinating people, flora, and fauna. I haven't been lucky enough to do much travelling in my life, but books like this help fill that void."
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