Kinabalu-Summit Of Borneo Author : K. M. Wong Classes : Places Of Interest / Tourist Attraction Price : US$ 180.00 Availability : Hard Cover Pages : 544 Dimensions : 263. 192. 42 mm ISBN : 967-99947-4-0 Code: 99038

INTRODUCTION KINABALU-Summit of Borneo records the wonder of a mountain that has captivated generations of naturalists and scientists the world over. At 4101 m the highest mountain between the Himalayas and the peaks of New Guinea, Kinabalu has been described as "the most wonderful mountain in the world." Here in this Sabah Society monograph, which updates and adds considerably to the original account of 1978, the environment, geology, plant and animal life, folklore, cultural significance, and conservation are given special treatment by an extensive suite of specialists. The monograph is augmented by a wealth of photographs, which bring this amazing mountain to life. AUTHOR EDITORS K.M. WONG Ph.D., heads the Botany section and Herbarium at the Sabah Forestry Department's Forest Research Centre, Sepilok, Sandakan. He continues his studies of tropical bamboos since completing a revision of the Malayan arborescent representatives of the taxonomically difficult Rubiaceae. He has been a Forest Botanist first with the Forest Research Institute at Kepong, Malaysia, and then in Brunei, and is also interested in plant architecture and successional ecology. He is the author of several books on Malaysian and Bornean plants and editor of the Sabah Forestry Department's botanical series "Sandakania" and the Sabah Society Journal. At present, he helps coordinate research on the tree flora of Sabah and Sarawak, and specialises in the Goodeniaceae, Hyperiaceae, Loganiaceae and Rubiaceae of Borneo. ANTHEA PHILLIPPS B.Sc., was brought up in Sabah as a child. After receiving her Botany degree from the University of Durham, U.K., she worked for a year at the Sabah Museum, before joining the Sabah Parks service in 1981 as Park Ecologist, where she studied rhododendrons and pitcher plants. She left the Parks service in 1987. She is author of "A Guide to the Parks of Sabah" (1988) and a co-author of "Rhododendrons of Sabah" (1988).