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Fever Trees of Borneo: A 2000km expedition through uncharted jungle

‘Mind-bending quantities of cloudy homebrew, amoebic dysentery, leeches, shipwrecks…just another day in the life of Mark Eveleigh, a borderline insane modern-day adventurer.’ –Maxim Magazine‘Sponsored by Heineken to reach the parts other explorers cannot reach, itinerant traveller Mark Eveleigh sets off on foot and by canoe across the heart of Borneo. On the way he endures shipwreck, malaria, leeches and exhaustion, not to mention enforced alcohol abuse and barbecued mouse-deer foetus. Such hardships, you would imagine, might be enough to put a man off his boiled fish and rice, but the author confronts each challenge with a spirit that is as understated as it is refreshing. All too often travelogues dwell on the downside of discovery, but Mark’s unique blend of enthusiasm and humour is genuinely absorbing and immensely readable.’ – Global Adventure Magazine.‘…keeps you reading for the plot: one minute avoiding malaria and starvation, the next faced with barbecued mouse-deer foetus…’ – Independent on Sunday‘…an extraordinary read and one that shows a level of exploratory zeal that belongs to an earlier century…the reader can’t help but be impressed by Eveleigh’s enduring of leeches, malaria and chocolate deprivation in his determination to understand life in one of the world’s more rough and ready communities.’ – Metropolist MagazineRead more

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