How has a town named after a female vampire ghost spawned an entire genre of kitschy horror films? Why did a quiet Swiss man choose to live rough in the rainforest with the semi-nomadic Penans - and what inner spirit drove him to fight a David vs. Goliath rebellion against timber tycoons and corrupt officials who were destroying the Penans's forest home? Has White-Brown colonialism been replaced by Brown-Brown arrogance? What's the story of the grandmother who spits at meddling ghosts (but only because they spit first)? Why did the first White Rajah of Borneo amass a vast harem of concubines?…mehr
How has a town named after a female vampire ghost spawned an entire genre of kitschy horror films? Why did a quiet Swiss man choose to live rough in the rainforest with the semi-nomadic Penans - and what inner spirit drove him to fight a David vs. Goliath rebellion against timber tycoons and corrupt officials who were destroying the Penans's forest home? Has White-Brown colonialism been replaced by Brown-Brown arrogance? What's the story of the grandmother who spits at meddling ghosts (but only because they spit first)? Why did the first White Rajah of Borneo amass a vast harem of concubines? What happened when I tried to ride the tidal bore that almost killed Somerset Maugham? In what way was an illiterate Borneo teenager instrumental in helping Alfred Russel Wallace develop the theory of natural selection? How close are we to orangutans, "our poor cousins who look like they haven't done so well in life." This is Borneo as you've probably never imagined, full of curious people, startling happenings, and unexpected moments of humanity and introspection, giddiness and solemnity, avarice and ambition.
Paul Spencer Sochaczewski is an award-winning Geneva, Switzerland-based writer and writing coach. While at WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature International), Paul created global public awareness campaigns to protect rainforests and biological diversity, then later developed the WWF Faith and Environment program. Paul has lived and worked in more than 80 countries, including two decades in Southeast Asia. He has written more than 600 bylined articles on conservation, wildlife, orangutan intelligence, and social change for The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Travel + Leisure, CNN Traveller, Reader's Digest, and the Royal Geographical Society magazine Geographical. He has written 14 books on subjects ranging from golf (Distant Greens) and speaking with dead people (Dead, But Still Kicking) to a handbook on how to write your personal story (Share Your Journey). In addition, he has written about the nature of Borneo in Malaysia: Heart of Southeast Asia; served on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia; and was project initiator for Tanah Air: Celebrating Indonesia's Biodiversity. He spent 40 years following the Southeast Asian trail of Victorian British naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace, who developed the Theory of Natural Selection and got usurped by Charles Darwin. For more information, visit Paul's website (www.sochaczewski.com) or his Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Spencer_Sochaczewski).
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