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Royal Chitwan National Park is 932 sq km (358 sq miles) of magnificent first-growth trees — the tall hardwood sal, the kapok “silk-cotton” tree, and the flame-of- the-forest with their spectacular crimson February flowers, plus ferns, bamboo, and huge vines that choke trees to death like pythons.
Then came tin mining and rubber plantations, and, more recently, palm oil, hardwood timber, and offshore petroleum and gas.
Peat swamp, found in the southern half of the peninsula and in Sarawak on Borneo, is less fertile but rich in hardwood timber.
Typically, he conjures a Lutheran or Presbyterian setting for his novels, and his enthusiasm for those particular creeds induces him, at moments of crisis in one plot after another, to plunk his guilty male culprit of a hero (Updike's heroes are almost always guilty males) down on a hardwood pew and to subject him to a vigorous Sunday sermon on biblical themes.
Failing a real hardwood blowpipe, you can buy the handsome quiver of stout rattan-bound bamboo with the poison darts (minus the poison), both authentic, and a shorter pipe of bamboo that does a perfectly serviceable job of blowing darts into your cork dartboard at home.