Into the Heart of Borneo

ISBN: 9781850891079

定价: 57.00

内容简介

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.
Powerful as your scholarly instincts may be??? there is no
matching the strength of that irrational desire to find a
means of keeping your head upon your shoulders; of
retaining your frontal appendage in its accustomed place;
of barring 1???700 different species of parasitic worm from
your bloodstream and Wagler s pit viper from just about
anywhere; of removing small??? black??? wild-boar ticks from
your crutch with minimum discomfort (you do it with
Sellotape); of declining to wear a globulating necklace of
leeches all day long; of sidestepping amoebic and bacillary
dysentery??? yellow and blackwater and dengue fevers???
malaria??? cholera??? typhoid??? rabies??? hepatitis??? tuberculosis and