Ce site utilise des cookies pour fournir nos services, optimiser les performances, pour les analyses, et (si vous n'êtes pas connecté) pour les publicités. En utilisant Librarything, vous reconnaissez avoir lu et compris nos conditions générales d'utilisation et de services. Votre utilisation du site et de ses services vaut acceptation de ces conditions et termes.
Résultats trouvés sur Google Books
Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.
'The most hilarious travel book in many years' - Standard. Armed with equipment and advice from 22 SAS, Hereford, and accompanied by three trackers, Redmond O'Hanlon, the naturalist, and James Fenton, the poet, set out on a long river voyage into the interior of a tropical jungle hoping to reach the Tiban massif. At once funny and knowledgeable, Redmond O'Hanlon's account of how they battled with insects, discomfort and setbacks is a hugely entertaining and informative adventure story in the best tradition of the world's great travel classics. 'A marvellous book ... a very funny and expert witness' - Edward St Aubyn in the Tatler. 'Consistently exciting, often funny, and erudite without ever being overwhelming' - Punch.… (plus d'informations)
Into the Heart of Borneo is Redmond O'Hanlon's first book that made his name as a travel writer, prior to this he was an academic and TLS book reviewer. He made a number of further trips in the 80s and 90s producing 3 more travel books to the Amazon, Congo and North Atlantic. I read the Amazon account first and found this to be similar in approach. There is a Boswell (O'Hanlon) writing about a curmudgeon Johnson (poet James Fenton) accompanied by a handful of native guides whose main interests are boiled bushmeat and jungle women, colorful bird sightings and descriptions of other flora and fauna. The Borneo book is not nearly as grotesque as the Amazon book, it is more civilized. O'Hanlon is oddly juvenile in the Amazon account, unhinged at times, though he was years older. In Borneo he maintained decorum, perhaps finding a voice. ( )
Mildly entertaining. British humor always seems so forced as to not be overly funny. The trip would have been more interesting had the author discussed it more and done a better job at leaving the humor out. Ditto for the book itself. Currently in Sumatra, I plan on going to Borneo in August and am doing mild background reading. This copy was purchased in Penang, Malaysia at Sam's in the heart of the Old Town. Tis a print-on-demand book, and a cheapie at that. ( )
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances anglais.Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
To my wife, Belinda
Premiers mots
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances anglais.Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
As a former academic and natural history book reviewer I was astonished to discover, on being threatened with a two month exile to the primary jungles of Borneo, just how fast a man can read.
Citations
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances anglais.Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
"I have allowed myself," he said mournfully, "to come to the middle of nowhere, the middle of nowhere, with a bunch of maniacs."
Derniers mots
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances anglais.Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
Références à cette œuvre sur des ressources externes.
Wikipédia en anglais
Aucun
▾Descriptions de livres
'The most hilarious travel book in many years' - Standard. Armed with equipment and advice from 22 SAS, Hereford, and accompanied by three trackers, Redmond O'Hanlon, the naturalist, and James Fenton, the poet, set out on a long river voyage into the interior of a tropical jungle hoping to reach the Tiban massif. At once funny and knowledgeable, Redmond O'Hanlon's account of how they battled with insects, discomfort and setbacks is a hugely entertaining and informative adventure story in the best tradition of the world's great travel classics. 'A marvellous book ... a very funny and expert witness' - Edward St Aubyn in the Tatler. 'Consistently exciting, often funny, and erudite without ever being overwhelming' - Punch.
▾Descriptions provenant de bibliothèques
Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque
▾Description selon les utilisateurs de LibraryThing
)
)
)
Google Books — Chargement...
(3.77)
1