In 1927, forensic doctor William Krohn set off for Borneo to collect ethnological specimens for Chicago's Field Museum. Once there, Krohn entered a dangerous world in which even the lush flora seemed menacing. Nothing had prepared him for the physical experience of Borneo -- towering trees so dense that the crocodile-infested river was the only possible highway, shrieking monkeys everywhere, and pitch dark nights lit only by the wings of luminous moths.
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In 1927, forensic doctor William Krohn set off for Borneo to collect ethnological specimens for Chicago's Field Museum. Once there, Krohn entered a dangerous world in which even the lush flora seemed menacing. Nothing had prepared him for the physical experience of Borneo -- towering trees so dense that the crocodile-infested river was the only possible highway, shrieking monkeys everywhere, and pitch dark nights lit only by the wings of luminous moths.
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