A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Leaving Borneo [October 2005]

Leaving Borneo [October 2005]

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John Mendelssohn
Dec 08, 2009
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Leaving Borneo [October 2005]
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When the immigration officer at Gatwick asked me how long we'd been gone, I'd told him, without trying to be funny, 10 years. It felt as though we'd spent around nine years on planes, as coming home from Borneo involved nothing more than a 90-minute flight from Kuching to Kuala Lumpur, a six-hour stay at KL's airport, a six-hour flight to Dubai, a two-h…

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