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    'The Last Wild Men of Borneo' is a real-life adventure tale about two expats in the jungle

    Mar 27, 2018 4 minutes

    A Swiss expat named Bruno Manser entered the jungles of Borneo in 1984 hoping to wipe away any vestiges of modern life. For a while, he did just that.

    Another expat, an American named Michael Palmieri, ventured into the same territory, starting in the 1970s, hoping to bring back art and artifacts of a vanishing native culture.

    These yin-yang adventurers crossed paths on at least one occasion – a happenstance meeting at a Chinese food court in Kuching, the capital of the state of Sarawak in Borneo.

    “He and I were different, but after just a minute of talking we both recognized a similar impulse,”

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