Beyond the Last Village by Alan Rabinowitz, Aurum Press, £19.99,
ISBN 1854108190
THERE are not many really remote places left on the planet. But one is the
mountainous fastness of northern Myanmar, formerly Burma. It is cut off by
topography and rainforest, by political ostracism and the bureaucracy of a nasty
regime, and by the simple fact of being a long way from anywhere.
But Alan Rabinowitz, an American biologist and explorer of some repute,
determined in the early 1990s to try to go there. In this telling of his
journey, he gradually leaves behind the unpleasant reality of modern…
