The Last Wild Men Of Borneo: A True Story Of Death And Treasure

  • Autor: Carl Hoffman
  • Narrador: Joe Barrett
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 9:18:23
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Sinopse

Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary “Wild Men of Borneo.” One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization—or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times bestselling author Carl Hoffman journeyed to find the truth, discovering that nothing is as it seems in the world’s last Eden, where the lines between sinner, saint and myth converge.

In 1984, Swiss traveler Bruno Manser joined an expedition to the Mulu caves on Borneo, the planet’s third largest island. There he slipped into the forest interior to make contact with the Penan, an indigenous tribe of peace-loving nomads living among the Dayak people, the fabled “Headhunters of Borneo.” Bruno lived for years with the Penan, gaining acceptance as a member of the tribe. However, when commercial logging began devouring the Penan’s homeland, Bruno led the tribe against these outside forces, earning him status as an enemy of the state, but also worldwide fame as an environmental hero. He escaped captivity under gunfire twice, but the strain took a psychological toll. Then, in 2000, Bruno disappeared without a trace. Had he become a madman, a hermit, or a martyr?

American Michael Palmieri is, in many ways, Bruno’s opposite. Evading the Vietnam War, the Californian wandered the world, finally settling in Bali in the 1970s. From there, he staged expeditions into the Bornean jungle to acquire astonishing art and artifacts from the Dayaks. He would become one of the world’s most successful tribal-art field collectors, supplying sacred works to prestigious museums and wealthy private collectors. And yet suspicion shadowed this self-styled buccaneer who made his living extracting the treasure of the Dayak: Was he preserving or exploiting native culture?

As Carl Hoffman unravels the deepening riddle of Bruno’s disappearance and seeks answers to the questions surrounding both men, it becomes clear saint and sinner are not so easily defined and Michael and Bruno are, in a sense, two parts of one whole: each spent his life in pursuit of the sacred fire of indigenous people. The Last Wild Men of Borneo is the product of Hoffman’s extensive travels to the region, guided by Penan through jungle paths traveled by Bruno and by Palmieri himself up rivers to remote villages. Hoffman also draws on exclusive interviews with Manser’s family and colleagues, and rare access to his letters and journals. Here is a peerless adventure propelled by the entwined lives of two singular, enigmatic men whose stories reveal both the grandeur and the precarious fate of the wildest place on earth.

Capítulos

  • 001 The Last Wild Men of Borneo

    Duração: 14s
  • 002 Author's Note

    Duração: 01min
  • 003 Prologue

    Duração: 26min
  • 004 Chapter 01

    Duração: 25min
  • 005 Chapter 02

    Duração: 21min
  • 006 Chapter 03

    Duração: 20min
  • 007 Chapter 04

    Duração: 30min
  • 008 Chapter 05

    Duração: 21min
  • 009 Chapter 06

    Duração: 36min
  • 010 Chapter 07

    Duração: 28min
  • 011 Chapter 08

    Duração: 33min
  • 012 Chapter 09

    Duração: 43min
  • 013 Chapter 10

    Duração: 43min
  • 014 Chapter 11

    Duração: 19min
  • 015 Chapter 12

    Duração: 33min
  • 016 Chapter 13

    Duração: 27min
  • 017 Chapter 14

    Duração: 54min
  • 018 Chapter 15

    Duração: 26min
  • 019 Chapter 16

    Duração: 49min
  • 020 Chapter 17

    Duração: 15min
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