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Borneo Calls
By Steve Backshall
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As we dragged the heavy dugout canoe over thundering rapids, waist-deep foaming waters raged around us, threatening to wrench us downstream. Two days before, our guide had proclaimed, "You are the first outsiders ever to see this place."
We looked around us in awe at a steep rock-sided canyon with pristine fine jade velvet drapes hanging over glass-clear water. Two further days of dragging heavily laden boats through the rainforest torrent and I was starting...
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