Foreword by John Hemming Introduction Part 1: Nyapun 1. Meeting 2. Discovery 3. History 4. Penan 5. Expedition Part 2: Diaries Part 3: Today Appendix 1: The River Appendix 2: Members of the Sarawak Government and Royal Geographical Society Mulu (Sarawak) Expedition, 1977–8 Appendix 3: Survival International
The story of the expedition that launched the global rainforest movement.
Robin Hanbury-Tenison, OBE, DL, is the doyen of British explorers. A Founder and President of Survival International, the world's leading organisation supporting tribal peoples, he was one of the first people to bring the plight of the rainforests to the world's attention. He has been a Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, winner of the Pio Manzu Award, an International Fellow of the Explorers Club, Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow, Trustee of the Ecological Foundation and Fellow of the Linnean Society. Among his many publications are: A Question of Survival, A Pattern of Peoples, The Yanomami, Fragile Eden, The Oxford Book of Exploration, Mulu: The Rain Forest and his two autobiographies, Worlds Apart and Worlds Within, as well as a successful quartet of books about the other long distance rides he and Louella have made across France, China, New Zealand and Spain.
his journals [...] give a real and unadorned taste of life in the
jungle
*Church Times*
Celebrating Borneo’s biodiversity and cautioning against its
degradation, Hanbury-Tenison captures some of the beauty before its
almost certain disappearance.
*Publishers Weekly*
Finding Eden is a record of a pristine world at the moment of its
discovery, a loving portrait of a people and a place, a superb
primer on leadership, and a call to arms, demanding that we relish
and protect what is left of the wild world. I absolutely recommend
it.
*The Spectator*
This book is an eye-opening and beautifully written and illustrated
book. Finding Eden, ells the extraordinary story of Nyapun’s life
and what has happened since to the Penan and the Borneo
rainforests. It is a story of our time that explores discovery,
friendship and reminds us of the fragility of our planet and of the
urgent need to preserve the last untamed places of the world.
*The Travel Magazine*
Robin Hanbury-Tenison is champion of indigenous populations
everywhere. This is an inspiring book, an evocative, enchanting
account of his life among the nomadic Penan tribe of Borneo and how
he changed our attitudes towards such tribal peoples for ever.
*Redmond O'Hanlon, author of 'Into the Heart of Borneo' and 'Congo
Journey'*
In this elegant memoire Robin Hanbury-Tenison reveals the world of
the Penan for he was there as a naturalist and explorer long before
industrial logging ravaged the forests of Sarawak. It is at once an
elegy and a testimony to the folly of greed, and a reminder of just
what is at stake in the struggle to protect the remaining tropical
rainforests of the world...
*Wade Davis, Explorer in Residence, National Geographic*
a fascinating book. You will see what a beautiful, magical and
scientifically outstanding place Mulu is. And you will see how much
was achieved by the scientists of the Royal Geographical Society's
expedition. It led directly to the designation of this unique
habitat and ecosystem as a protected reserve and World Heritage
Site.
*John Hemming, author of 'Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon'*
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