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Recommended Borneo Books & Music |
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A Decade in Borneo (Literature of Travel Exploration and
Empire) by Ada Pryer, Susan Morgan (Editor) Hardcover (February 1, 2002) NEW! No review yet. Usually ships within 24 hours. Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders of $99 or more. |
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A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia :
Including the Philippines & Borneo by Morten Strange Paperback (June 2001) Field Guide to the Birds of Mainland Southeast Asia covers the rare and exotic birds of the region including Borneo, Malaysia, Thailand, Indochina, South China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. |
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This is Borneo by Junaidi Payne, Jayl Langub, Gerald Cubitt (Photographer), Dennis Lau (Photographer) No Review Yet! Hardcover
- 175 pages (April 1, 2000) |
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Music from the TV Show Eco Challenge: Borneo by R. Landau & D. Vanacore Audio CD (Apr 1, 2001) Released by Mark Burnett Records, the creator of Survivor and Eco Challenge hit TV shows, the album includes 22 highly charged and intense adventure tracks. |
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Kalimantan: Indonesian Borneo by Kal Muller, David Pickell (Editor), Periplus Adventure Guides Paperback (March 15, 2001) The Periplus Adventure guides do precisely what a great travel book should do- make you want to get up and go! The guides show you how to get there, and then help make the absolute most out of a stay, leaving no stone, no beach, no fine restaurant or mountain trail untried. With detailed, up-to-date maps, photographs-both new and archival- personal recommendations and inside tips from expert authors, the guides go well beyond the usual travel fare and offer an extraordinary value for the money. New additions to this issue include an updated guide to the flora and fauna-rich rainforests of East Malaysia and Brunei. |
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Rainstorm in Borneo by Bernie Krause Audio CD (April 21, 1998) This forest looks so formidable but signs of fragility are everywhere. Planes fly overhead taking miners and owners to dig gold upriver. Chainsaws cut away the hardwood that has taken millenia to flourish. Our dugout canoe is tethered to the aerial root of a fig tree along the edge of a mangrove swamp. We are watching a local fisherman try to catch a single once-abundant fish for his family's supper. In the meantime, we are trying to capture what may be the last gasp of this ancient forest voice before the biophony dies, a result of the effects of arsenic and mercury leaching from the mines and the silt from uncontrolled runoffs left by clear cutting....read more! |
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Reflections of Eden : My Years With the Orangutans of
Borneo by Birute M. F. Galdikas Hardcover (August 1996) Galdikas is a "trimate," one of three women who devoted themselves to the study of great apes in the wild. Her zeal for learning about orangutans emulates Jane Goodall's fascination with chimpanzees and the late Dian Fossey's dedication to gorillas. As she recounts her exhausting efforts to track and observe the orangutans of Borneo's rain forest, Galdikas also candidly describes the unexpected impact her mission has on her personal life. Galdikas' detailed chronicle is alive with captivating portraits of individual orangutans and charged with the forces of love, determination, grief, and recovery. |
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Music of Borneo by Various Artists Audio CD (Dec 28, 1998) 23 selections including songs such as 'Dediet Tapong Kitan', 'Nasip Sarawak', 'Serunai', 'Saga Lupakan', 'Soon Sia Kian', 'Spring Drums' and more...click here to hear songs samples. |
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British Colonial Rule in Sarawak, 1946-1963 by Vernon L. Porritt Hardcover (April 1, 1997) Sarawak, romanticized as the Land of the White Rajahs until 1946, lost its independence, became a British colony, and then became a state in the Federation of Malaysia, all in the short span of seventeen years...click here to read more. |
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and
Bali by John Ramsay MacKinnon, Karen Phillipps, Karen Phillips (Contributor), Paul Andrew Paperback (July 1993) The islands of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Bali are ecologically one of the richest, most biologically complex areas in the world, sought out by thousands of knowledgeable nature lovers every year for the spectacular variety of wildlife and beautiful vistas. This book provides the first complete identification guides to the birds of this teeming tropical paradise. It gives descriptions of 820 regional species, illustrated in 88 specially commissioned color plates accompanied by notes detailing distinctive features and habitats. |
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