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Borneo and the Poet (Pen 70) by Redmond O'Hanlon
Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Penguins S.
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins Series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin B ...Show more
Congo Journey (Popular Penguin) by Redmond O'Hanlon
Category: History | Series: Popular Penguins
Congo Journey is a hilarious and daring trip into the heart of darkness. Striking out for the Marxist-Leninist People's Republic of Congo, O'Hanlon takes an unsuspecting friend to hidden Lake Tele in search of Mohele-mbembe, the rarely seen Congo dinosaur. But what they find is not quite what they went ...Show more
In Trouble Again - A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon by Redmond O'Hanlon
Category: Travel
Redmond O'Hanlon found few experienced adventurers willing to accompany him on his four-month trip up the Orinoco river and across the Amazon Basin. He wondered why... Was it perhaps the fear of contracting dysentery, rabies or river blindness? Or maybe it was a disinclination to meet peckish jaguars, v ...Show more
Into the Heart of Borneo : An account of a journey made in 1983 to the mountains of Bastu Tiban with James Fenton by Redmond O'Hanlon
Category: Travel
Armed with equipment and advice from 22 SAS, Hereford, and accompanied by three trackers, Redmond O'Hanlon, the naturalist, and James Fenton, the poet, set out on a long river voyage into the interior of a tropical jungle hoping to reach the Tiban massif. At once funny and knowledgeable, Redmond O'Hanlo ...Show more
No Mercy: A Journey into the Heart of the Congo by Redmond O'Hanlon
Category: History
Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer - an American friend and animal be ...Show more
The Fetish Room: The Education of a Naturalist by Redmond O'Hanlon & Rudi Rotthier
Category: Biography Memoir
Redmond O'Hanlon is known as an amiable anti-hero - the debunker of classical exploration literature - and here on this joint road trip with journalist Rudi Rotthier, O'Hanlon visits places from his dark childhood. With a fine sense of the comic and beautifully rendered observations of the people they e ...Show more
Trawler : A journey through the North Atlantic by Redmond O'Hanlon
Category: Travel Literature
Redmond O'Hanlon describes his extraordinary three-week trip on an Orkney trawler as it journeys far into the north Atlantic in search of its catch. Young skipper Jason Schofield has a 2 million pound overdraft on his boat, the Norlantean, which is why he has to go out in a Category One Force 12 hurrica ...Show more
Trawler:A journey through the North Atlantic by Redmond O'Hanlon
Category: Travel Literature
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