Finding Eden
Subtitle: a journey into the heart of Borneo
By: Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781784538392
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Environmental degradation; Ethnology; Description and travel; Scientific expeditions; Travel; Rain forests; Deforestation; Environmental conditions; Traditional ecological knowledge; Social conditions; Penan (Bornean people); Rain forest conservation; Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain); Biodiversity conservation
Other titles: Journey into the heart of Borneo
Description: "Forty years ago the interior of Borneo was a pristine, virgin rainforest inhabited by uncontacted indigenous tribes an virtually tame wildlife. It was into this 'Garden of Eden' that Robin Hanbury-Tenison led one of the largest ever royal Geographical Society expeditions, an extraordinary 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 some of the greatest scientists in the world immersed themselves in a place and a way of life that is on the cusp of extinction. Much of what was once a wildlife paradise is now a monocultural desert, devastated by logging and forced settlement of nomadic tribes, where traditional ways of life an unimaginably rich and diverse species are slowly being driven to extinction. This is a story for our time, one that reminds us of the fragility of our planet and of the urgent need to preserve the last untamed places of the world"--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by John Hemming; title: Part I. Nyapun. Meeting ; Discovery ; History ; Penan ; Expedition; title: Part II. Diaries; title: Part III. Today; title: Appendix 1. The river; title: Appendix 2. Members of the Sarawak Government and Royal Geographical Society Mulu (Sarawak) Expedition, 1977-78; title: Appendix 3. Survival International.