SuitabookExpedition Diaries: Borneo Rainforest
Simon Chapman
- Reading
- Pause around exploration as learning and ask how the book presents it.
- Themes
- Exploration as learning: The narrator plans to reach the rainforest by boat and plane, trek through it and sketch its wildlife and plant life. The expedition is used to present geography and the natural world through direct observation.
- Rainforest biodiversity: The journey focuses on finding orangutans and sketching thousands of species of tree, mammal and bird in their rainforest habitat. Wildlife and species variety are presented as a way into understanding the rainforest’s natural complexity.
- Worth knowing
- Consider whether your reader is more engaged by field observations, drawing and wildlife, or by clearly organised factual explanation; the book’s balance between these elements is not established.