A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust and Lunacy. In 1993 Eric Hansen led an expedition through the steaming jungles of Borneo to find the world's rarest orchid. Five years later he was still on the trail of the true story behind one of the world's strangest plants and humanity's oddest obsessions. Funny, weird, poignant and completely unputdownable, 'Orchid Fever' is an exhilarating, provocative ...

Close Encounters With Strangers. An intrepid traveller, Hansen has a keenly perceptive eye and an appreciation for the unusual. He'll go anywhere, try anything and always manage to capture something remarkable in the doing. In this extraordinary book, he tells of drinking mind-altering kava in Vanat, joins a grieving husband's search for his dead wife's ring in the Borneo rainforest, and ...

An Enthralling True Story of Shipwreck, Exploration and Discovery in the Middle East. This engrossing travelogue begins with the terrifying account of the storm that left Eric Hansen and four companions shipwrecked on a deserted Red Sea island. A witty, vivid mix of reportage, comedy and tension. Simultaneous publication with the paperback edition of Eric Hansen's acclaimed 'Orchid Fever' and 'Str

On Foot Across Borneo. Eric Hansen's comic, absorbing story of his travels in Borneo is 'a new classic of jungle travel'. A gripping evocation of life in the splendour and danger of the rainforest and a tribute to a proud jungle culture now tragically threatened by the forces of the Western cash economy. Simultaneous publication with the paperback edition of Eric Hansen's acclaimed 'Orchid Fever'

This lyrical collection is equal parts travelogue, memoir and anthropological treatise.