Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Robin Hanbury-Tenison (born 7 May 1936)[1] is a Cornish explorer. He is president of the charity Survival International.
Life
In 1959, Hanbury-Tenison married Marika Hopkinson, and lived with her in a fourteenth-century farmhouse on Bodmin Moor; Marika became well known for her cookery books, published under her married name.[2] They had two children, Lucy (b. 1960) and Rupert (b. 1970).[3] Marika died in 1982.
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; he became its first president.[4]
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.[5]
Hanbury-Tenison and his second wife Louella own the farmhouse Cabilla Manor near Bodmin Moor, which is both their home and a bed and breakfast business.[6]
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.[7]
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
- ↑ "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 7 May 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
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- ↑ Hanbury Tenison, M. Deep-Freeze Cookery. 2nd edition. London. Pan Books, 1972, p. i.
- ↑ Robin Hanbury-Tenison Curriculum Vitae
- ↑ Hanbury-Tenison, Robin (1991). Worlds Apart: An Explorer's Life. Arrow Books. pp. 115–128.
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ "Cabilla". Retrieved 9 April 2014.
- ↑ Smith, Nick (November 2006). "Robin Hanbury-Tenison". Geographical. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
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