Amazon.com: Island of Secrets (Kindle Single) eBook: Matthew Power: Kindle Store
$1.99 / 42 pages
Spiders, rattlers, scorpions, pythons, leeches, wild pigs, twelve-foot saltwater crocodiles, and bats with five-foot wingspans—oh my! Welcome to the world of John Lane: intrepid environmentalist, committed rule-breaker, and generally unflappable guy. Educated as a geologist, Lane is now a one-man crusader for environmental protection in New Britain, a tropical island near Papua New Guinea, where—he believes—he can play a major role in the creation of a huge national preserve, if only he can prove the existence of an elusive species of tree kangaroo. Island of Secrets chronicles author Matthew Power’s trip with Lane on one such mission. Along the way, Power crafts an action-packed profile of a man for whom it is “not as much about finding things as looking for them.” Beset by language barriers, punishing rainfall, impenetrable jungle, and intractable bureaucracy, their quest yields a raucously fun read. —Jason Kirk
