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Article: The hero you hate to love. (book review)
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 28, 2002
- Author:
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Byline: JAMES DELINGPOLE
***** The Most Offending Soul Alive by Judith Heimann Do bad people get to lead more interesting lives than good ones?
It's a question I often asked myself while reading about Tom Harrisson.
Here, as one of his many admirers, David Attenborough, puts it, was an 'explorer, museum curator, guerrilla fighter, pioneer sociologist, documentary filmmaker, anthropologist' who became 'a key figure in every enterprise he undertook'.
Yet as Heimann makes clear in her compelling, richly researched, lovehate biography of this forgotten 20th Century hero, Harrisson was also a cantankerous drunkard, a troublemaker, a brawler ...
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