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A deeply informative anthropological study disguised as an adventure tale. -- Publishers Weekly Compelling and haunting, a story of lofty ideals and base desires, a deeply personal story written by a man who loves Borneo and who struggles to understand the forces that threaten to tear it apart. -- Booklist (starred review) An expertly wrought tale of exploration, adventure, and mischief...Excellent...At once cautionary and inspiring; adventure travel at its best. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A first-rate adventure story...Part of the magic of this book [is] that, in the hazy equatorial air of a place peopled by such outsized characters, anything was possible. -- Outside magazine A work of remarkable empathy...Quite a story-exciting, funny and tragic-and Hoffman tells it extraordinarily well. -- Washington Post The best book about the 'Western hunger for Eastern solace'-as Carl Hoffman neatly puts it-you'll probably ever read. -- William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days

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Carl Hoffman is the author of the New York Times bestseller Savage Harvest, hailed as a masterpiece by Outside and named a New York Times editors' choice and one of the Washington Post's 50 notable works of nonfiction for 2014, as well as The Lunatic Express. He is a former contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler and Wired, and has traveled on assignment to eighty countries Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award-winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.

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