Redmond O'Hanlon is a British author renowned for his adventurous journeys into the world's most remote regions. His writing delves into the raw reality of the wilderness, capturing the unique challenges and wonders of these expeditions. O'Hanlon's accounts of jungle expeditions in Borneo, the Amazon basin, and the Congo, as well as his vivid narrative of a trip aboard a trawler in the North Atlantic, offer readers an immersive experience.
O'Hanlon takes readers on a four-month journey up the Orinoco River and across the Amazon basin in search of the Yanomami Indians. His book contains humor, adventure, and a wealth of information. One map.
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.
Features an adventurous travel to Congo, one of the most dangerous and inhospitable jungle in the world.
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'.
A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon
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).
'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.