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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.
[…]
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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- 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
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