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The most
offending soul alive : Tom Harrisson and his remarkable life / Judith
M. Heimann. - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i press, 1999. -
VIII-468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN 0-8248-2149-1
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NOTE DE L'ÉDITEUR : An English eccentric and adventurer, Tom
Harrisson (1911-1976) sought knowledge and renown in a dizzying
number of fields, while breaking most of the rules of « civilized »
society.
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By age twenty-one, Harrisson had carried
out pioneering ornithological research and explored the fauna
of Northern Borneo. While still in his twenties, he wrote a best-selling
book based on his experiences living among cannibals in the South
Pacific. The next decade found Harrisson applying the techniques
of bird-watching to his fellows Britons in what became Mass-Observation,
a precursor of modern market research. Later he won the DSO for
parachuting into Borneo behind enemy lines and organizing an
army of blow-piping headhunters who eventually killed more than
a thousand Japanese soldiers.
After the war Harrisson
settled in Borneo, where, as curator of the Sarawak Museum, he
transformed it into a model and inspiration for the region ; he led
efforts to save the orang-utan, the green sea turtle, and other
endangered species ; he discovered the oldest modern human skull
known at the time ; he published widely in the scientific and popular
press, and appeared frequently on the BBC and British television.
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| COMPLÉMENT BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE | | - Tom Harrisson, « Savage
civilisation », London : Victor Gollancz, 1937 ;
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1937
- « Borneo jungle :
an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak » ed.
by John Ford, C.H. Hartley, Tom Harrisson (et al.), London :
L. Drummond, 1938
- Tom Harrisson, « Living
among cannibals, an account of the author's experiences on the
island of Malekula » ill. by Ellis Silas, London :
Harrap, 1943 ; New York : AMS press, 1979
- Tom Harrisson, « World
within : a Borneo story », London : Cresset
press, 1959 ; Singapore, New York : Oxford university
press, 1986
- Tom Harrisson, « The
Malays of South-West Sarawak before Malaysia, a socio-ecological
survey », London : Macmillan, 1970 ; East
Lansing : Michigan state university press, 1970
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| mise-à-jour : 21 septembre 2011 |
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