Robin Hanbury-Tenison

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Robin Hanbury-Tenison (b. 1936) is a Cornish explorer. He is president of the charity Survival International.

Life

In 1959, he married Marika Hanbury-Tenison, and lived with her in a fourteenth-century farmhouse on Bodmin Moor.[1] They had two children, Lucy (b. 1960) and Rupert (b. 1970).[2]

In 1968 he travelled on a BBC-funded expedition in the Amazon, having a discussion with the ethnobotanist Conrad Gorinsky that led to the foundation of the charity Survival International.[3]

In 1971, he and Marika went on a three-month expedition, backed by Survival International, to visit and live among the Xingu people in Brazil, speaking with local people and studying their living conditions. In 1973, the Hanbury-Tenisons followed up their journey to Brazil with a three-month visit to Indonesia. They made their last research trip together in 1979, when they visited Malaysia as part of a Royal Geographical Society scientific expedition.[4]

Awards and achievements

Hanbury-Tenison was the first person to travel overland from London to Sri Lanka; the first (1958) to cross South America overland at its widest point; the first to cross South America from north to south by river (1964–65); the first to navigate the Orinoco River by hovercraft; the first to ride the length of the Great Wall of China on horseback.[5]

Books

  • A Pattern of Peoples: A Journey Among the Tribes of Indonesia's Outer Islands (1975)
  • Mulu: Rain Forest (1980)
  • Aborigines of the Amazon Rain Forest (Peoples of the Wild) (1983)
  • Worlds Apart: An Explorer's Life (1984)
  • Spanish Pilgrimage: A Canter to St. James (1990)
  • Worlds Within: Reflections in the Sand (autobiography)
  • White Horses over France: From the Camargue to Cornwall (2004)
  • Fragile Eden: A Ride Through New Zealand (2004)
  • Chinese Adventure: A Ride Along the Great Wall (2004)
  • A Question of Survival for the Indians of Brazil (2005)
  • The Seventy Great Journeys in History (2006)
  • Oxford Book of Exploration (editor, 2010)
  • The Great Explorers (2010)
  • The Modern Explorers, with Robert Twigger (2013)
  • Land of Eagles: Riding Through Europe's Forgotten Country (2013)
  • Echoes of a Vanished World: A Travellers Lifetime in Pictures (2013)
  • Beauty Freely Given: A Universal Truth: Artefacts from the Collection of Robin Hanbury-Tenison, with Christopher John Bowden (2013)

For children

  • Jake's Escape (2013)
  • Jake's Treasure (2013)
  • Jake's Safari (2013)

References

  1. ↑ Hanbury Tenison, M. Deep-Freeze Cookery. 2nd edition. London. Pan Books, 1972, p. i.
  2. ↑ Robin Hanbury-Tenison Curriculum Vitae
  3. ↑ Hanbury-Tenison, Robin (1991). Worlds Apart: An Explorer's Life. Arrow Books. pp. 115–128. 
  4. ↑ Patricia D. Netzley: Entry for Marika Hanbury-Tenison from The Encyclopedia of Women's Travel and Exploration (reproduced as entry for Marika Hanbury-Tenison at Wings WorldQuest)
  5. ↑ Smith, Nick (November 2006). "Robin Hanbury-Tenison". Geographical. Retrieved 5 February 2014. 

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