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Marika Hanbury-Tenison
(1938-1982) |
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Marika and Robin Hanbury-Tenison were married in 1959. They
lived on their farm on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall until her tragically early death
from cancer in 1982.
During this time Marika became one of Britain's top food
writers, producing some 30 books. She was also the cookery editor of the
Sunday Telegraph for the last fourteen years of her life. Marika
travelled with Robin, notably on two major expeditions to Brazil and Indonesia,
as a result of which she wrote these two vivid and entertaining books.
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For Better, For Worse
Marika Hanbury-Tenison
ISBN 1590482050
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“Her impressions
are fresh and vivid, and the further she goes from civilisation the better
she writes.” The Daily Telegraph.
In 1971 Marika
Hanbury-Tenison set out with her explorer husband Robin on an expedition,
backed by Survival International, to visit and live among the Indians of
Central Brazil, some of the most isolated and mysterious native communities
in the world. This is her story of that expedition.
It is, in her own
words, ‘a light-hearted account of our journey and experiences in Brazil as
seen through the eyes of a novice in the exploring world.’
In fact Marika
Hanbury-Tenison is a superb observer. Suddenly uprooted from domesticity as
a cookery writer at her Cornish home, she finds herself in one of the
richest, most alien and most extreme environments in the world.
Whether she is writing about high life in Rio, the simple joy of native
communities on the Xingu river, or the plight of the poor whites in the
inland shanty-towns, she enlivens everything with the sharpness and warmth
of her description.
But she is primarily a good
story-teller. The characters she meets on her eventful journey and the
stories they themselves have to tell make this book a most enjoyable and
delightful read.
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A Slice of Spice
Marika Hanbury-Tenison
ISBN 1590482042 |
In 1973 Marika
Hanbury-Tenison followed up her expedition to Brazil, described in For
Better, For Worse, with an even more hazardous journey to the islands of
Indonesia. Once again she accompanied her husband Robin, the Chairman of
Survival International, but this time as a more independent traveller, a
partner in the expedition.
They visited the Kubu tribes of
Sumatra and the more remote people of the island of Siberut. They flew to
Kalimantan (Borneo) to visit the Dayak peoples of the interior, the Celebes
islands, the Moluccas and West Irian. In the course of her travels, she
visited the ‘navel of the world,’ she took tea with former cannibals and
journeyed into a magic land where no machines are allowed and no white man
had ever before set foot. She travelled by plane, by jeep, by canoe, by pony
and often on foot. She survived a virtual shipwreck, attacks by leeches,
contracted a tropical disease, encountered a wild boar and a cassowary. All
the songs, dances, spells and music, the food of the native communities, and
the richness of a vanishing way of life, are recreated in her highly
entertaining descriptions.
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