Our Indonesian guide, with a parang (machete) in hand, dropped vertically in front of me, just brushing my face, while out of …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
The Amazing Miocene Fossil Leaf Pack of Mata Creek, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI was crouched in a long boat somewhere up a rainforest-swathed river in Kalimatan, Borneo, when I saw it – a ‘living’ …
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I was sitting in a ger in Mongolia when I put up my hand to go to Indonesia. My ulterior motive was …
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The ‘high-wall’ of a mine has been the undoing of many a geologist (if an opencast mine is targeting something flat and dipping, …
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West Timor – Mine of Women, and the Palm-Wine Bomb I never thought to see a mine run by women. By why …
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Autobiography & Travel
Would you like a beer? – Guests of the Kalimantan Police
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleRoni is a Batak. This is a christian tribe that lives in the Lake Toba area of the otherwise Muslim Sumatra. The Bataks …
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