Dr Carl Lumholtz was a Norwegian explorer who travelled in Borneo between 1913 and 1917, and retraced the steps (in the reverse direction) of a fellow countryman, Carl Bock, whose work, The Head-Hunters of Borneo is also available as an Oxford Paperback.
First published in 1920, Through Central Borneo may perhaps have been one of the last of the great travel books about Borneo. Although in recent decades rarely a year has gone by without at least one book describing the adventures of some person braving the Borneo jungle as if no one had ever braved it before. Lumholtz's book, written when large tracts of Central Borneo were unexplored and unknown to the outside world, is of solid value and is an extremely readable and elegantly presented account of his journeys. What armchair traveller today will be able to resist such passages as the following: 'Anchoring at night, there are about five days travel on the majestic river, passing peaceful-looking kampungs where people live in touch with nature. A feeling of peace and contentment possessed me. "I do not think I shall miss even the newspaper, "I find written in my diary." Dr V.T King of the Centre for South-East Asian Studies in the University of Hull contributes an informative introduction to this reprint.
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Paperback, Import
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Format : Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195889967
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