Into the Heart of Borneo

Reissue of the classic, hilarious travel book which has sold over 81,000 copies in paperback to date

Redmond O'Hanlon is an explorer in the nineteenth-century mould. In addition to his four bestselling travel books, Into the Heart of Borneo, In Trouble Again, Congo Journey and Trawler, he has published scholarly work on nineteenth-century science and literature. For fifteen years he was the Natural History editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He lives outside Oxford with his wife and two children.

&lsquo;We&rsquo;ve left a lot of men in Borneo &ndash; know what I mean?&rsquo; With their SAS trainer&rsquo;s warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O&rsquo;Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover the lost rhinoceros of Borneo. They were loaded with enough back-breaking kit to survive two months in a steaming 95&deg; (in the shade) jungle of creeping, crawling, biting things. O&rsquo;Hanlon could also rely on his encyclopaedic knowledge of the region&rsquo;s flora and fauna, and had read-up on how to avoid being eaten by anything (stick your thumbs in a crocodile&rsquo;s eyes, if you have time). And yet they proceeded to have an adventure that neither O&rsquo;Hanlon, nor his friend, nor even his guides were remotely prepared for&hellip; 
 
&lsquo;Consistently exciting, often funny, and erudite without ever being overwhelming&rsquo; Punch.

Congo Journey

'O'Hanlon's best book. Learned and witty, this work is in danger of giving travel literature a good name' Mail on Sunday

Redmond O'Hanlon lives in Oxfordshire. He is the author of INTO THE HEART OF BORNEO and IN TROUBLE AGAIN.

Combining the acute observation of a nineteenth-century missionary, and the wit of a Monty Python player, Redmond O'Hanlon is famous for his adventurous travel. His new challenge is the Congo, the most dangerous and inhospitable jungle in the world.

A Journey Through the North Atlantic

Trawler

Trawler has sold 25,000 copies in hardback to date.

Redmond O'Hanlon has written three bestselling, highly acclaimed travel books: Into the Heart of Borneo, In Trouble Again and Congo Journey. For fifteen years he was the Natural History editor of The Times Literary Supplement. He lives outside Oxford with his wife and two children.

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 hurricane when the rest of the Scottish fleet has run for shelter. O'Hanlon may not be much help when it comes to seamanship - in the words of one of the crew, he doesn't know his arse from his tit - but he is able to wax lyrical on the amazing deep-sea fish to be found north of the Wyville Thomson Ridge: greater argentine, flying squid, blue ling, the truly disgusting hagfish and many other exotics. 
Combining humour with erudition, O'Hanlon has written a vivid and compulsively readable account of a journey that for sheer terror beats all his previous adventures.

Redmond O'Hanlon

A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon

In 1986, Redmond O'Hanlon decided to undertake a four-month trip through Venezuala, up the Orinoco River and across the Amazon Basin. The trip involved the risk of contracting dysentery, rabies and river blindness, encountering jaguars, vipers, anacondas, 640-volt electric eels, and giant catfish known to bite off human feet. He struggled to find a willing travelling companion. 
 
In Trouble Again is the gripping, hilarious and unpredictable account of that trip, as one intrepid ornithologist and his unsuspecting Oxford chum stumble from one catastrophe to the next.

Redmond O'Hanlon

Books by Redmond O'Hanlon

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