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ROBIN HANBURY-TENISON OBE, DL, Dhc, MA, FLS, FRGS
Explorer, Conservationist, Broadcaster, Film Maker, Author, Lecturer, Campaigner, Farmer
Born: 7 May Educated: Eton; Magdalen College, Oxford (MA)
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EXPLORER AND CONSERVATIONIST.
Named by the Sunday Times in as "the greatest explorer of the past 20 years" and in as one of the "Makers of the 20th Century" (between Dag Hammarskjold and Keir Hardy), and again in , in the Spectator, as the doyen of British Explorers, he has been on over 30 expeditions.
drove from London to Ceylon and worked passage around the world.
made first land crossing of South America at its widest point (Mrs Patrick Ness Award, RGS, ).
Saharan camel travels with Tuareg exploring Tassili nAjjer, Tibesti and Aïr mountains.
made first river crossing of S America from north to south from the Orinoco to Buenos Aires.
Geographical Magazine Amazonas Expedition by Hovercraft, from Manaus to Trinidad.
Trans-African Expedition by Hovercraft (Deputy Leader). Dakar to Lake Chad to the Congo.
visited 33 Indian tribes (with Marika) as Chairman of Survival International/guest of Brazilian Govt..
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Follow to get new release updates, special offers including promotional offers and improved recommendations. He has spent much of his life travelling in the world's rainforests and deserts and campaigning to protect both them and their people. He believes that the spirit of exploration is alive and well and never more needed than now, as we begin to realise how little we really understand our world and how rapidly we are destroying it. His latest book, The Modern Explorers, salutes both those who have inspired us in recent years and those who are continuing the tradition of pushing the limits of knowledge and human endurance. From his farm on Bodmin Moor, which last year won the Award as the Best Large Scale Renewable Energy Project in Cornwall, he still travels widely, lecturing and visiting expeditions in the field.British Trans-Americas Expedition. Researched Indian tribes of Darien in Panama and Colombia.
travelled Outer Islands of Indonesia (with his wife Marika) to research tribal people for Survival Int.
explored Eastern Sulawesi and made first overland crossing.
expedition recce through Sabah, Brunei and Sarawak.
led the Royal Geographical Society's largest expedition ever, taking scientists to the interior of Sarawak in Borneo (RGS Patrons Gold Medal, ); the research from this expedition, and his book, Mulu: the Rainforest, started the international concern for tropical rainforests.
walked across part of Kalahari Desert with Bushmen
expeditions in Ecuador, Brazil and Venezuela.
lived with Yanomami tribe in Brazil researching a book for Time Life.
with his wife, Louella, rode two Camargue horses across France.
rode (with Louella) along the Great Wall of China.
led a mission for IUCN, FOE and Survival Int. to investigate the arrest of Malaysian environmentalists and Borneo tribal people for campaigning against excessive logging in Sarawak.
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rode (with Louella) as pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela.
mission to Eastern Europe to assess investment and environmental opportunities.
rode (with Louella) across Spain driving cattle on the transhumancia.
visited tribal people of Kamchatka and Ussuria for Survival Int.
delivered Landrover for Survival Int. to Udege people of Ussuria.
rode (with Louella) the route of proposed Pennine Bridleway.
visited tribal people of Arunachal Pradesh, NE India.
stayed with Innu people at Lake Kamistastin, Labrador.
first return visit to Mulu, Sarawak.
Made film for Channel 4.
rode by camel (with Louella) through Tenere Desert, accompanied by Tuareg.
diving in the Red Sea (PADI Cert.). diving with Silkie sharks off Cuba.
travelled alone with Tuareg and camels through Aïr mountains of Niger for 40 days.
visited all remaining Bushman groups in Central Kalahari.
penetrated the Kimberley region of NW Australia to seek prehistoric Bradshaw rock paintings.
rode on Albanian horses (with Louella) the whole length of Albania. Made film.
climbed Mt. Roraima, Venezuela (with Louella).
Maya forest research in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize (with Louella).
He has been a Council Member (), Vice-President () and Gold Medallist () of the Royal Geographical Society; an International Fellow of the Explorers Club, a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow (), a Trustee of the Ecological Foundation (), President of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust () and of the Camel Valley and Bodmin Moor Protection Society (), Patron of the Cornwall Heritage Trust, Fellow of the Linnean Society, Member of the Society of Authors and a winner of the Krug Award for Excellence ().
Doctor honoris causa, University of Mons-Hainaut for "services to democracy" Chairman of Friends of Conservation Mungo Park Medal RSGS, Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Cornwall
A frequent lecturer at schools, universities, learned societies (especially the RGS) and on cruise ships, he has often worked with young people.
One of the founders of the Young Explorers' Trust and of the Expedition Advisory Centre, he organised Capital Radios Venture Days in Battersea Park in / Opened by the Prince of Wales, they attracted the biggest crowds to date in London, other than for royal weddings.
2. BROADCASTER, FILM MAKER AND AUTHOR.
Robin hanbury tenison biography books In , he married Marika Hopkinson. She became well known for her cookery books. They have a son, Merlin b. In Hanbury-Tenison was the first person to travel overland by jeep from London to Sri Lanka then known as Ceylon. In he took part in the Geographical magazine's Amazonas Expedition by hovercraft from Manaus in Brazil to the Republic of Trinidad.
A regular contributor of articles and reviews to many magazines and newspapers, including the Times, Telegraph, Mail, Express, Geographical Magazine (columnist 98), New Scientist, Field, Traveller, Spectator, Country Life, TLS and Literary Review.
Frequent radio broadcasts on various subjects (Desert Island Discs, Loose Ends, Ad Lib, Today, Womans Hour, Farming Todays Breakfast Guest, Start the Week, Mid Weeks Birthday Guest, The Moral Maze, A Good read, Museum of Curiosities etc.)
Numerous TV interviews (The Late Late Show, Fragile Earth, Pebble Mill, The Big Breakfast Show, World in Action, Newsnight etc.) and films for Television including: The Last Great Journey on Earth (BBC ); Trans-Africa Hovercraft Expedition (BBC ); A Time for Survival (Westward ); Mysteries of the Green Mountain (BBC ); Antiques at Home (BBC ); White Horse over France (BBC /also FR3 in French); Great Wall of China (); Odyssey series (presenter) (); Siberian Tigers (C4 News and Land Rover promotion ); Collectors Lot (); The Lost World of Mulu (C4 ); Reflections in the Sand (Discovery ); Testament (Carlton ).
He is also the author of the following books:-
The Rough and the Smooth ;
Report of a Visit to the Indians of Brazil, ;
A Question of Survival A Pattern of Peoples ;
Mulu: The Rain Forest , rep. , ;
The Yanomami
Worlds Apart (autobiography) , rep. , (1st as Des Mondes a part in French, )
White Horses over France , ;
The Rainforests: a Celebration (contrbtr.)
A Ride along the Great Wall , rep.
conds. as Mysterious China & trans.
Robin hanbury tenison biography books for sale: Airling Robin Hanbury-Tenison OBE DL FLS FRGS (born 7 May ) [1] is an explorer based in Cornwall. [2] He is President of the charity Survival International [ 3 ] and was previously Chief Executive of The Countryside Alliance.
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Fragile Eden , ;
Spanish Pilgrimage , ;
Save the Earth (contrbtr.) ed. J Porritt
The Oxford Book of Exploration , ;
Our Countryside (contrbtr) ;
The English Landscape (contrbtr)
Childrens Books: Jakes Escape ; Jakes Treasure ; Jakes Safari
Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity: a market approach (contrbtr) ;
Worlds Within
More Tales from the Travellers (contrbtr) ,
Meetings with remarkable Muslims (contrbtr) ,
The Seventy Great Journeys in History ,
Land of Eagles ,
The Great Explorers
Publishers include: Robert Hale, Collins, Angus & Robertson, Scribners, Wiedenfeld & Nicholson, Time Life Books, Robert Laffont, Granada, Arrow, Century, Hutchinson, OUP, Red Fox, The Long Riders Guild Press.
Thames & Hudson.
3. CAMPAIGNER.
One of the founders in of Survival International the worldwide movement to support tribal peoples, he was Chairman until , when he received an OBE for his work, and he has since been President. On Survival's behalf he has led several overseas missions assessing the status of indigenous peoples in South America, Africa, SE Asia, India, Siberia and Canada.
Robin hanbury tenison biography books list Follow to get new release updates, special offers including promotional offers and improved recommendations. He has spent much of his life travelling in the world's rainforests and deserts and campaigning to protect both them and their people. He believes that the spirit of exploration is alive and well and never more needed than now, as we begin to realise how little we really understand our world and how rapidly we are destroying it. His latest book, The Modern Explorers, salutes both those who have inspired us in recent years and those who are continuing the tradition of pushing the limits of knowledge and human endurance. From his farm on Bodmin Moor, which last year won the Award as the Best Large Scale Renewable Energy Project in Cornwall, he still travels widely, lecturing and visiting expeditions in the field.He regularly meets ambassadors and High Commissioners to discuss their countries' abuses of tribal peoples' rights. In he received the Pio Manzu medal of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for his defence of tribal peoples.
He is a frequent attendant at both conferences and protests concerning environmental destruction, especially that of tropical rain forests.
President Rain Forest Club From to he was Chief Executive of the British Field Sports Society, now the Countryside Alliance. He organised the hugely successful Countryside Rally, which brought , people to Hyde Park in July , and the Countryside March when , marched through London in , the largest ever peaceful demonstration in the capital to date.
He was named Personality of the Year by the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation in and Patron of the Countryside Alliance in
4. FARMER.
Since he has farmed over acres on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. In addition to conventional hill farming of sheep and cattle, diversification has been tried with Angora Goats, Red Deer and Wild Boar from Russia.
Now farming energy from wind, solar, water and biomass. From he was a member of the South West Regional Panel of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. He was a founder member of FWAG, on the Cornwall Committee of the CLA, a member of Invest in Britain (formerly Think British) Campaign () and is an Ambassador for the Westcountry Development Corporation.
In he was awarded the Farmers Club Cup for his outstanding contribution to farming, agriculture and the countryside and in the Contribution to the Countryside Award by the CLA.
He was married, first, to Marika (née Hopkinson) the food writer, who died in , by whom he has a daughter, Lucy (b), and a son, Rupert (b).
In he married Louella Edwards (née Williams), who has two sons, Harry (b) and Peter (b). They have a son, Merlin (b) and they live at:- CABILLA MANOR, BODMIN, CORNWALL PL30 4DW,