Matchsticks for my eyelids: A Barn owl odyssey

This is the story of an ex-University lecturer who has lived, travelled, worked and researched around the world in over 80 countries, including China, Pakistan, India, Malaysia and several African countries. Having already written about his adventures in Africa in the book entitled ＂From one end to the other＂, this book concentrates on South East Asia where Graham Lenton studied Barn owls in the vast oil palm estates of Malaysia for a PhD, which resulted in the first and only avian rodent control system in the world. He visits the Philippines for work, writing and research, eats rat sausages and belut a strange local delicacy and tries snake soup. Adventures in the Malacca Straits with a near death experience, spending time in hospital with tick typhus and hosting a nest of cockroaches in his newly purchased car all contribute to a fascinating story of his time in this amazing corner of the tropical world. In ＂Matchsticks for my eyelids＂ you will be introduced into the secrets as to how wildlife research is carried out, the commitments and passion that is necessary to get the answers to impossible questions, how obsession for the answers is necessary to get results and how days can become nights for studying owls.