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Tom Harrisson

Born

in Buenos Aires, Argentina

September 26, 1911

Died

January 16, 1976

Genre

Nonfiction

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Tom Harrisson, educated in England at Harrow School and Pembroke College, Cambridge is described as having been a was an ornithologist, explorer, journalist, broadcaster, soldier, guerrilla, ethnologist, museum curator, archaeologist, documentarian, film-maker, conservationist, and writer.

He conducted ornithological and anthropological research in upland Borneoand the New Hebrides from 1932-1935.

Later, in 1937 with Humphrey Jennings and Charles Madge, Harrisson founded Mass-Observation, a project to study the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain.

A graduate of wartime officer candidate training at Sandhurst, Harrisson was inducted into the British Special Operations Executive during the Second World War and sent to Australia to hel Tom Harrisson, educated in England at Harrow School and Pembroke College, Cambridge is described as having been a was an ornithologist, explorer, journalist, broadcaster, soldier, guerrilla, ethnologist, museum curator, archaeologist, documentarian, film-maker, conservationist, and writer.

He conducted ornithological and anthropological research in upland Borneoand the New Hebrides from 1932-1935.

Later, in 1937 with Humphrey Jennings and Charles Madge, Harrisson founded Mass-Observation, a project to study the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain.

A graduate of wartime officer candidate training at Sandhurst, Harrisson was inducted into the British Special Operations Executive during the Second World War and sent to Australia to help insert a cladestine unit into Borneo.

His efforts to rescue stranded American airmen shot down over Borneo are a central part of The Airmen and the Headhunters.

Harrisson's series The Borneo Story was broadcast by BBC television in 1957.

he 1950s and 1960s Tom and Barbara Harrisson undertook pioneering excavations in the West Mouth of the Great Cave at Niah, Sarawak. Their most important discovery was a human skull in deposits dated by radiocarbon to about 40,000 years ago, the earliest date for modern humans in Borneo. The results of their excavations were never published in an appropriate manner leading to uncertainty and doubts as to their results; however, they are largely vindicated by results of excavations carried out by the Niah Cave Project from 2000-2003. Three films (amongst more made for British TV) record the Niah work[7]

At the start of the Brunei Revolt in 1962 Tom Harrisson gathered and led a force of Dyaks 2,000 strong to contain the rebels and cut off their escape route to Indonesia.

Harrisson traveled, lived and worked in the USA, the UK and France before dying in a road accident in Thailand.

A biography, The Most Offending Soul Alive by Judith Heimann, gives a flavour of the strong feelings he engendered.

A documentary Tom Harrisson – The Barefoot Anthropologist, hosted by David Attenborough, was broadcast on BBC4 in the autumn of 2006. ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 101 ratings · 6 reviews · 40 distinct works

	Living Through the Blitz 3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pub and the People: A Worktown Study 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Borneo Jungle: An Account of the Oxford University Expedition of 1932 by Tom Harrisson (Editor), John Ford, C.H. Hartley 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1938	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Britain Revisited liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gold And Megalithic Activity In Prehistoric And Recent West Borneo by Tom Harrisson, Stanley J. O'Connor it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1970	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living Among Cannibals by Tom Harrisson, Ellis Silas (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Excavations of the Prehistoric Iron Industry in West Borneo (2 Volumes) by Tom Harrisson, Stanley J. O'Connor 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1969	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kota Bata in Brunei / Diary of Mr. W. Pretyman / The Mat Salleh Rebellion (Sarawak Museum Journal, Vol. VII, No. 8 New Series ) December 1956 by Tom Harrisson, W. K. C. Wookey 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Borneo Jungle: An Account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Malays of South-East Sarawak Before Malaysia, The 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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