Discovering Sabah

Sabah offers an astonishing diversity of landscapes and people, as well as richly varied plant and animal life, yet surprisingly little is known about the treasures of this Malaysian Borneo state. Its landscapes range from long white sandy beaches to magnificent rain forests and Malaysia’s largest freshwater floodplain, home to Borneo’s unique proboscis monkey and the orang-utan. In Sabah’s limestone caves, precious edible birds’ nests are gathered, while nesting sea turtles come ashore on many of its islands. Towering over all is Mount Kinabalu, at 4,095 metres the highest mountain between the Himalayas and New Guinea, and focal point of Kinabalu Park, Malaysia’s first World Heritage Site. Sabah is the perfect place for the adventurous, offering world-class scuba diving sites, including Pulau Sipadan and Layang Layang. There is also the chance for hiking, white-water rafting, a range of sea sports, horse-riding and golfing. Luxurious resorts offer everything the less energetic holidaymaker might wish for, while jungle lodges and diving resorts make getting closer to nature remarkably easy. This book is designed as an introduction to Sabah, where people still retain the best of their cultural traditions as they welcome visitors with genuine warmth and friendliness.[BBooks says: 'Discovering Sabah' comes in English, Chinese and Japanese editions. The perfect book to buy as a pictorial introduction to the diversity of places, people and wildlife in Sabah. 170 pages. Pictures excellent, from all the best photographers. Good supporting text. Buy it before you visit, leave it with your friends so they can envy you rotten while you are away, and keep it as a permanent record after you return. Discovering Sabah Largish size, hardback high quality publication by Natural History Publications (Borneo), 2001. 177pp, mainly pictorial. Actual size 8.5 x 9.5" (215 x 240mm). Index. Amaze your Japanese friends by giving them this as a present in their own language!]