Publisher's Synopsis
In 1978 Robin Hanbury-Tenison and a team of scientists went to study the Gunung Mulu National Park in North Borneo - one of the most remote and untouched regions of tropical rainforest left in the world. They found a dramatic landscape of virgin forest, lush hidden valleys and a spectacular network of caves, as well as a rich variety of exotic species of plants and animals and the Penan people, the nomadic inhabitants of Mulu.;But this, one of the most valuable regions of national beauty left in the world, would soon become yet another victim of man's exploitation of his planet. Now, a quarter of a century on, the destruction of the Mulu National Park has prompted the reissue of Hanbury-Tenison's book, including an impassioned afterwork by the author.
