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Sometimes it feels as though the whole planet has been so polluted and ravaged that there are no Edens left- but they are there to be found by those who step off the beaten track... So it was with mine.Fifty years ago the interior of Borneo was a pristine- virgin rainforest inhabited by uncontacted indigenous tribes and naive- virtually tame- wildlife. It was into this Garden of Eden that Robin Hanbury-Tenison led one of the largest ever Royal Geographical Society expeditions- an extraordinary undertaking which triggered the global rainforest movement and illuminated- for the first time- how vital rainforests are to our planet. For 15 months- Hanbury-Tenison and a team of some of the greatest scientists in the world immersed themselves in a place and a way of life that is on the cusp of extinction. Much of what was once a wildlife paradise is now a monocultural desert- devastated by logging and the forced settlement of nomadic tribes- where traditional ways of life and unimaginably rich and diverse species are slowly being driven to extinction. This is a story for our time- one that reminds us of the fragility of our planet and of the urgent need to preserve the last untamed places of the world....