Lost Worlds

Trek into Earth’s most remote frontiers, from the ice-wrapped peaks of Zaire to the maze of sandstone domes in Northwest Australia.

The author of The Back of Beyond continues the chronicle of his odyssey into some of the farthest corners of the world, from the Mountains of the Moon in Zaire, to wilderness Tasmania, to the unknown regions of New Guinea.

The volume documents his overland trek through the Ituri Forest to the cloud-covered slopes of Mount Stanley. In Panama, the Cuna community grants him passage through ancestral jungle sanctuaries along the Colombian border.

He navigates the gale-lashed waters of the Chilean fjords before seeking out the ancient beehive domes of Australia’s Bungle Bungle. This expansive travelogue records encounters with solitary hermit-builders, outback cattlemen, and isolated island settlements at the edges of the map.
Adventure Travel: Confront ferocious piranhas on the Arauca River and join midnight roundups across the hundred-thousand-acre savannas of Venezuela’s wild Llanos.Natural History: Witness bizarre botanical wonders in remote mountain bowls, where thirty-foot tree ferns, prehistoric groundsels, and yard-long earthworms thrive in perpetual mist.Ecology and Conservation: Explore pristine island sanctuaries where wild frigatebirds nest undisturbed in mangrove lagoons and rare pink-sand beaches stretch unbroken for seventeen miles.Against the Odds: Sail through narrow channels of floating icebergs to face the calving two-hundred-foot face of the thunderous San Rafael glacier.Also by This Author: Seasons on Harris, Seasons in Basilicata and At the Edge of Ireland.