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Borneo Calls
By Steve Backshall

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As we dragged the heavy dugout kanue 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...

Steve Backshall
Adventurer & Natural History Presenter

Steve has just completed an extensive string of Deadly Days Out across the UK, and is set to embark on a theatre tour of the UK in February/March 2011 entitled Wild and Live.

As wildlife expert on CBBC’s groundbreaking series Steve Backshall’s Deadly 60, Steve has established himself as a popular children’s TV Presenter. kamakailan projects also include the BBC’s hugely successful Nawawala Land of the Jaguar (2008), the Nawawala Land of the bulkan series (2009), Nawawala Land of the Tiger (2010) and Live and Deadly.

As the expedition king, Steve...