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Island of Secrets
- Narrated by: Matthew Power
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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If geologist, adventurer, and risk-prone eccentric John Lane can prove the existence of the elusive tree kangaroo on the remote Pacific island of New Britain, he just might be able to save one of the last truly wild endangered forests on Earth. But first he and his ragtag expedition party - college students, adventure-seeking biologists, disinterested local teenagers - will have to find the rare animal.
Award-winning writer Matthew Power plunges into one of the world's most foreboding jungles alongside Lane. It is a quest that's equal parts noble, dangerous, and wacky, in a place that's truly off the map.
©2011 The Atavist, Matthew Power (P)2011 The Atavist, Matthew Power
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"In this wonderful piece of modern reportage, tree kangaroos, 'wicked' self-inflicted machete wounds, shot-down WW II pilots, conservation, and eyeball-sucking leeches all converge in one beautiful, terrifying, largely unexplored place. That it took Matthew Power - one of our most hilariously indomitable travel writers - to bring back this story will surprise no one." (Tom Bissell, author of Extra Lives and Chasing the Sea)
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