Robin Hanbury-Tenison - Finding Eden : a journey into the heart of Borneo

Robin Hanbury - Tenison , OBE, DL, is a founder and current president of Survival International, the worlds leading organisation supporting tribal peoples, and 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, a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow, a Trustee of the Ecological Foundation and a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Among his many publications are: A Question of Survival for the Indians of Brazil , A Pattern of Peoples , Aborigines of the Amazon Rain Forest: The Yanomami , Fragile Eden , The Oxford Book of Exploration , and his two autobiographies, Worlds Apart and Worlds Within , as well as a successful quintet of books about long-distance rides he and his wife Louella have made across France, China, New Zealand, Spain and Albania, the latest being Land of Eagles (also published by I.B.Tauris).

The doyen of British explorers.
SPECTATOR

Robin Hanbury-Tenison is the 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 OHanlon, author of Into the Heart of Borneo and Congo Journey

Throughout the traditional homeland of the Penan, one of the most extraordinary nomadic cultures in the world, the sago and rattan, the palms, lianas, and fruit trees lie crushed on the forest floor. The hornbill has fled with the pheasants, and as the trees continue to fall, a unique way of life, morally inspired, inherently right, and effortlessly pursued for centuries, has been assaulted in a single generation. In this elegant memoir 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 Societys 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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For Nyapun and all Penan people.