Borneo Books wishes all clients and site visitors a Merry Christmas. We also wish you all the best for the New Year, which looks like being a bit of a challenge economically and environmentally. Never mind, come and visit us in Kota Kinabalu. If you do and you come at sunset time, ask to [...]
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 Dancer welcoming Festival guests Recently Borneo Books spent 3 days at the annual get together of birders from across SE Asia. It was held at the Rainforest Discovery Centre at Sepilok, near Sandakan. This is over the east side of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, just near the Orang Utan Conservation Centre. The highlight for [...] In the excitement of moving to a new website, a number of emails got misdirected and have only recently come to light. Our apologies. Please email again if you didn’t get a reply, particularly if it involved the purchase of a book. Borneo Books has to close its two shops on the 2nd floor of the Wisma Merdeka shopping mall in Kota Kinabalu because of termination of the leases. We have now opened a brand new shop on the ground floor of the same shopping mall (seaward side) where Borneo Craft used to be. Come and [...]  Prof. Nikolaus Koeniger, his wife Dr Gudrun Koeniger and Salim Tingek Today was the ceremonial launching of the long awaited book on the Honey Bees of Borneo, describing the research work of Prof. Nikolaus Koeniger, his wife Dr Gudrun Koeniger and Salim Tingek. All five species of honey bee occurring in Borneo are [...] John Beaufoy and Ken Scriven John Beaufoy,¬† Proprietor and MD of John Beaufoy Publishing¬† from the UK (left), and his Area Representative Ken Scriven (former CEO of WWF Malaysia) came to the shop in KK 2 days ago to show us the final mock up of¬† ‘Wild Sabah’,¬† a new volume by John [...] After months of preparation and testing, this new website for Borneo Books Services is now open for business. We hope you will find our selection of books tempting. It is almost certainly the best selection on Borneo available anywhere. A number of our titles are not stocked in any other shop, nor can they [...] …Or rather, a long one this time. Look at these two pictures. They are contrasts in perspective. In the station scene, the length of the train in the distance is obvious, because the tracks indicate the distance it is away from the observer. In the 2nd picture, of a very large Python reticulatus, [...] A female Yellow Birdwing drying its wings after emerging from its pupa (chrysalis) in the Kipandi Butterfly Park in the mountains above Kota Kinabalu. This is one of 5 species of birdwing being bred in the Park for conservation and tourism purposes. This pic was taken two days [...] Hypolimnas bolina likes open sunny spaces close to trees. It is a feature of large gardens in suburban Kota Kinabalu. The male is very territorial and glides down from a high perch to inspect intruders, including people. Other butterflies get chased away. |
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