Download or read book Descent Into Chaos written by Richard Michael Connaughton and published by Potomac Books Incorporated. This book was released on 1996 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early March 1994, five exhausted and starving members of a British Army expedition emerged from Low's Gully, a five-mile-long hell hole falling away from Mount Kinabalu in the jungles of Borneo. However, the achievement of the five - mostly fit and able young British non-commissioned officers - in being the first to conquer Low's Gully, was overshadowed by the fact that the other five members of the team, two relatively old and senior British officers as the leaders and three young novice Chinese storemen and guards serving under the British military in Hong Kong, were apparently still lost in the gully. What had gone wrong and why had the group broken the golden rule for such expeditions - never split up?
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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lonely Planet Borneo written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 best-selling guide to Borneo* Lonely Planet Borneo is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Dive with sea turtles on the Semporna Archipelago, visit the water village of Kampung Ayer, or hang with the orangutans at Tanjung Puting National Park; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Borneo and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Borneo Travel Guide: Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, customs, culture, the cuisines of Borneo, environment, responsible travel Over 35 maps Covers Sabah, Sarawak, Kalimantan, Brunei and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Borneo, our most comprehensive guide to Borneo, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei or Indonesia guides for comprehensive looks at all that the region has to offer. Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. * Source: Nielsen BookScan. Australia, UK and USA Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Download or read book Phillipps Field Guide to the Mammals of Borneo and Their Ecology written by Quentin Phillipps and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and easily accessible field guide to the mammals of Borneo—the ideal travel companion for anyone visiting this region of the world. Covering Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan, the book provides essential information on 277 species of land and marine mammals and features 141 breathtaking color plates. Detailed facing-page species accounts describe taxonomy, size, range, distribution, habits, and status. This unique at-a-glance guide also includes distribution maps, habitat plates, regional maps, fast-find graphic indexes, top mammal sites, and a complete overview of the vegetation, climate, and ecology of Borneo. Covers 277 species—from orangutans and clouded leopards to otters and other marine mammals Features 141 superb color plates Includes facing-page species accounts, distribution maps, fast-find graphic indexes, and more Describes Borneo's vegetation, climate, and ecology
Download or read book The Impossible Climb written by Mark Synnott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES MONTHLY BESTSELLER One of the 10 Best Books of March, Paste Magazine A deeply reported insider perspective of Alex Honnold’s historic achievement and the culture and history of climbing. “One of the most compelling accounts of a climb and the climbing ethos that I've ever read.”—Sebastian Junger In Mark Synnott’s unique window on the ethos of climbing, his friend Alex Honnold’s astonishing free solo ascent of El Capitan’s 3,000 feet of sheer granite is the central act. When Honnold topped out at 9:28 A.M. on June 3, 2017, having spent fewer than four hours on his historic ascent, the world gave a collective gasp. The New York Times described it as “one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever.” Synnott’s personal history of his own obsession with climbing since he was a teenager—through professional climbing triumphs and defeats, and the dilemmas they render—makes this a deeply reported, enchanting revelation about living life to the fullest. What are we doing if not an impossible climb? Synnott delves into a raggedy culture that emerged decades earlier during Yosemite’s Golden Age, when pioneering climbers like Royal Robbins and Warren Harding invented the sport that Honnold would turn on its ear. Painting an authentic, wry portrait of climbing history and profiling Yosemite heroes and the harlequin tribes of climbers known as the Stonemasters and the Stone Monkeys, Synnott weaves in his own experiences with poignant insight and wit: tensions burst on the mile-high northwest face of Pakistan’s Great Trango Tower; fellow climber Jimmy Chin miraculously persuades an official in the Borneo jungle to allow Honnold’s first foreign expedition, led by Synnott, to continue; armed bandits accost the same trio at the foot of a tower in the Chad desert . . . The Impossible Climb is an emotional drama driven by people exploring the limits of human potential and seeking a perfect, choreographed dance with nature. Honnold dared far beyond the ordinary, beyond any climber in history. But this story of sublime heights is really about all of us. Who doesn’t need to face down fear and make the most of the time we have?
Download or read book Exclusive written by Maurice Chittenden and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a hot, sunny day last August, the final newspaper still working from an office on London's Fleet Street called 'stop the press' and closed its doors for the final time. Thirteen days later it was the turn of award-winning journalist Maurice Chittenden to make his excuses and leave. He was fired from The Sunday Time after a Fleet Street career lasting almost forty years, one that saw him working for a trio of legendary Murdoch editors: Andrew Neil, Kelvin Mackenzie and Derek Jameson. In a rip-roaring trip through his career, he tells how he was involved (accidentally, of course) in the first ever telephone bugging of a member of the Royal Family twenty years before such skulduggery was even thought possible, helped solve the murder of schoolgirl Caroline Dickinson and was credited with bringing down a Tory government. He arrived too late to save his boss the embarrassment of the Hitler diaries, but he exposed the supposed Jack the Ripper confessions and Roswell alien autopsy film as fakes. He sparked a diplomatic incident when he was thrown into jail in Borneo over a lobster. One of the last surviving combatants in The Battle of Wapping, in which an attack on his car led to a police cavalry charge and a bloody riot, he is the most by-lined reporter in The Sunday Times history with up to seven by-lines a week. His career mirrored the rise and fall of Fleet Street and he freely admits that his own excesses played a part in its downfall. The Fleet Street he remembers with fondness no longer exists. But its reputation as the 'Street of Shame' survives in the name of the column in Private Eye which afforded him the plaudit of 'the legendary Maurice Chittenden' in its report of his professional demise.
Download or read book Sabah Society Journal written by Sabah Society and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southeast Asia written by Jeremy Atiyah and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guides series contain full color photos, three maps in one, and arewaterproof and tearproof. They contain thousands of keyed listings and brightnew graphics.
Download or read book Global Geotourism Perspectives written by Ross. K Dowling and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2010-05-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding collection of international case studies that provide insight into and suggest best practice for issues such as conservation, risk management, education, marketing, interpretation and technology of actual and developing geotourism sites.
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Malaysia Singapore Brunei written by Charles de Ledesma and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a booming economy, Malaysia is a country in rapid growth mode. This guide covers all the developments from its futuristic flagship city, Kuala Lumpur, to its most luxurious resorts and remotest villages. This second edition updates everything from bars, clubs, and karaoke to its contemporary coverage of the recent Singapore elections. color maps and photos.
Download or read book Global Opportunities and Challenges for Rural and Mountain Tourism written by Kala, Devkant and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountainous and rural areas throughout the world have continually been attributed with several hinderances including poverty, faulty governance, and susceptibility to natural disasters. However, with the recent development of tourism, these provinces have seen a strong rise in visitation. Despite this increase in economic sustainability, planners are still presented with many challenges as they try to balance developmental and ecological considerations. Global Opportunities and Challenges for Rural and Mountain Tourism provides emerging research exploring the integration of mountain tourism development and innovative practices for managing contemporary issues and challenges of tourism in these regions including socio-economic impacts, role of stakeholders, and promotional strategies for sustainable tourism development. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as cultural heritage, marketing strategies, and value chain systems, this book is ideally designed for travel agents, tour directors, tour developers, hotel managers, hospitality and tourism professionals, industry practitioners, researchers, geographical scientists, planners, academicians, and students.
Download or read book Kinabalu Park written by Anthea Phillipps and published by . This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and practical guide is intended for any local or international visitor to Kinabalu Park, an increasingly popular eco-tourism destination in Sabah, Eastern Malaysia. One of the most accessible and spectacular mountains in the world, Kinabalu is also one of the highest in South-east Asia. The park, now a world heritage site, is a mecca of biodiversity, containing more than 5000 species of plants and a wealth of birds, mammals and other animals. In addition to the wildlife, visitor attractions include hiking trails, hot springs, a canopy walkway and the two-day ascent of the summit itself. This illustrated book is both a complete introduction to Kinbalu and a companion guide for the visitor. It describes all the park's wildlife and plantlife, including a full bird checklist, and has essential practical information on access, accommodation and facilities. Detailed accounts of the park's trails and climbs are each accompanied by individual route maps.
Download or read book Geology of North West Borneo written by C.S. Hutchison and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Geology of North-West Borneo Sarawak, Brunei and Sabah -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- History of Geological Investigation -- Early exploration -- Netherlands East Indies geological and mining department -- The oil company era -- The Geological Survey (European era 1949-1968) -- The Geological Survey (Malaysian era 1969-onwards) -- Regional Tectonic Setting -- Part A Sarawak -- Regional Geology Concepts -- Palaeomagnetism of Sarawak -- Geomorphology -- Mesa Topography -- Karst Topography -- Rajang Group Inliers in Miri Zone -- Synclines of Sandy Formations -- Mud Volcanoes -- The Kuching Zone -- Basement Schists -- Correlatives -- Terbat Formation -- Thickness and relationships -- Lithology -- Palaeontology and age -- Correlatives -- Upper Triassic Formations -- Serian Volcanic Formation -- Jagoi Granodiorite -- Sadong Formation -- Regional palaeogeography -- Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous Formations -- Kedadom Formation -- Bau Limestone Formation -- Pedawan ...
Download or read book Diving in Malaysia A Guide to the Best Dive Sites of Sabah Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia written by Dr Kurt Svrcula and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its pristine, unspoilt beaches and breathtaking coral reefs, Malaysia has quickly become one of the world's leading scuba diving destinations. The country boasts a coastline of some 4800 km and more than 200 islands, including world-renowned locations like Pulau Sipadan, Layang-Layang Atoll, and Pulau Redang. In this revised and updated edition of Diving in Malaysia, author Kurt Svrcula presents a comprehensive guide to over 130 dive and snorkel sites in the region, ranging from perennial favourites to newly discovered gems. This invaluable guide provides information and advice for divers.
