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...explains that her naturalistic yearnings began while exploring forests near her home and leading field trips through a wildlife park. Jamie R. Jenkins '85, a four-year roommate of Rosegrant, recalls noticing tinges of the anthropologist/explorer Jane Goodall in her cohabitant. "We all swore that she would go to Borneo with an anthropologist to study primates...
...canoe. Narrator Redmond O'Hanlon, 37, is a literary naturalist who admits before embarking on the 1983 expedition, "The nearest I had ever come to a tropical rain-forest, after all, was in the Bodleian Library." Actually, he edges a bit closer when he consults some old Borneo hands. "You'll find the high spot of your day," advises one, "is cleaning your teeth. The only bit of you you can keep clean. Don't shave in the jungle, because the slightest nick turns septic at once . . . You'll think it's the end of the world...
...jeunesse d'or, the jungle glitterati." And O'Hanlon is chillingly adept at describing the river torrent that nearly killed his friend, and at expressing some thoughts about the omnipresence of early death by misadventure: "No wonder the population was so perpetually young, so beautiful." Into the Heart of Borneo makes the island more surreal than enticing; nevertheless, O'Hanlon has announced plans for a similar three-month tour down the Amazon. Some people never learn; and a good thing...
...mammals department has the largest collection of gibbons because of expeditions in Borneo and Thailand that "decimated whole hill sides," Rutzmoser says, adding. "We wouldn't do that anymore...
...commemorate the birth of Jesus, 250 Lisu tribesmen in Thailand's mountainous Chiang Rai province will assemble this week for three days of prayer and movies about Christ. In Sarawak, a Malaysian province on the island of Borneo, Dyak tribesmen one generation removed from head-hunting will gather in longhouses along the turbid Rajang River for caroling. Similar scenes will take place in impoverished villages in Guatemala, Brazil, Botswana and India. In many cases, the celebrations will be organized and guided by Western missionaries. Says Timothy