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Na zijn reis van twee maanden naar het hart van Borneo dacht Redmond O'Hanlon dat een reis van vier maanden over de Orinoco naar het hart van het Amazonegebied geen enkel probleem zou opleveren. Niets bleek minder waar: naast de gevaren die hij al kende uit Borneo, deden zich nog heel andere voor: een op aids lijkende ziekte, rivierblindheid, geelzucht en niet te vergeten een minuscuul visje dat maar één wens heeft: een penis binnenzwemmen en zich daar nestelen, waarna slechts één remedie rest: afhakken. Al deze gevaren verbleken echter bij het grootste van alle: zijn medereizigers. Het heeft O'Hanlon niet belet terug te komen met een even geestig als erudiet verslag van zijn reis. Van exotische vogels en otters tot indianen met zeer ongewone gebruiken. En wie kan zeggen dat hij aanwezig is geweest bij het uitsterven van een taal?

Travels upriver into the heart of the Jungle.Redmond O'Hanlon's classic 'Into the Heart of Borneo', from which this extract is taken, was described by Eric Newby as 'not only among the top three post-war books of it's kind but certainly the funniest travel book I have ever read'.

Features an adventurous travel to Congo, one of the most dangerous and inhospitable jungle in the world.

'We've left a lot of men in Borneo - know what I mean?' With their SAS trainer's warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O'Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover the lost rhinoceros of Borneo. They were loaded with enough back-breaking kit to survive two months in a steaming 95degree jungle.

When Redmond O'Hanlon set out to rediscover the lost rhinoceros of Borneo, accompanied by the poet James Fenton, it was in the best tradition of nineteenth-century exploration. They were armed with backbreaking kit suitable to surviving two months in a steaming jungle of creeping, crawling and biting things; their heads brimmed with training provided by the SAS; and O'Hanlon himself had an encyclopedic knowledge of the region's flora and fauna. And yet they proceeded to have an adventure that neither O'Hanlon, his poet friend nor his guides were quite prepared for.

Having survived Borneo, Amazonia, and the Congo, the indefatigable Redmond O’Hanlon sets off on his next his own perfect storm, in the wild waters off the northern tip of Scotland. Equipped with a fancy Nikon, an excessive supply of socks, and no seamanship whatsoever, O’Hanlon joins the commercial fishing crew of the Norlantean , a deep-sea trawler, to stock a bottomless hull with their catch, even as a hurricane roars around them. Rich in oceanography, marine biology, and uproarious humor, Trawle r is Redmond O’Hanlon at his finest.

O'Hanlon takes us into the bug-ridden rain forest between the Orinoco and the Amazon--infested with jaguars and piranhas, where men would kill over a bottle of ketchup and where the locals may be the most violent people on earth (next to hockey fans).