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Published by Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1984
ISBN 10: 019582606XISBN 13: 9780195826067
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Book
Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by The Cresset Press, London, 1959
Seller: Librairie Le Nord, Hearst, ON, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 142 mm X 221 mm. 349 pages. Ex-library book. spécifié>.
Published by Opus Publications, Sabah, 2008
ISBN 10: 9833987273ISBN 13: 9789833987276
Seller: Mike Park Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Book
Cloth. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. (1959 - reprinted 2008). Illustrated, pp xiv, 349, a very good new copy in dustwrapper. [It is sometimes said, and often thought, that everything a writer writes is at least in part autobiographical. Even though Tom Harrisson wrote, at his peak, about 8,000 words a day, his ego was big enough and his interests wide enough so that most of what he wrote did, indeed, contain something personal and particular about himself. Yet, of all his published writings, World Within comes nearest to being his autobiography. In it, he shamelessly exposes his deepest fears and failings but also showcases his greatest love affair, between himself and the people of inland Borneo. It is pointed out errors that appear here and there in the first half of the book, the part that attempts to describe the Kelabit tribes-people of Sarawak in the time he knew them, illuminated by their past as he understood it. The second half of World Within tells more about the author himself and about how and why he got to Borneo and what happened then. In this portion of the book, the main story-within-the-story is of his leading the first successful guerilla operation in Borneo against the Japanese from behind their lines in the last year of World War II. Some critics have claimed that this military adventure story suffers from Harrisson s well-known penchant for bragging and blowing his own horn. But my twelve years of research leading to my own books on the subject confirm that his account is as truthful as he could make it and that the extraordinary accomplishments he claims for the SEMUT 1 unit he led are not at all exaggerated. He dictated World Within to a typist in London, composing it without any of his notes, which were on the other side of the world. This has led to occasional inaccuracies but has also helped give the book the narrative impulse that one would experience sitting and listening to the recollections and opinions of a fascinating man. Above all, this is a passionate book by a man who focused much of his astounding energy on a place he loved as he loved no other, Borneo, and on its people, who made him the great gift of accepting him for who he was, in all his strength and weakness.
HARDCOVER. 1959. First edition. A near fine copy only marked by light age tanning to the edges of the text block. The d/w is very good with light edge rubbing, Scans available if required.
Published by Opus Publications, Malaysia, 2008
ISBN 10: 9833987273ISBN 13: 9789833987276
Seller: M. C. Wilson, Perth, WA, Australia
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Reprint 2008 near fine hardback in a near fine dust wrapper. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. 349 pages with index. Maps. Illustrations. Endpaper Maps.
Published by The Cresset Press, London, 1959
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Usual library markings, jacket rubbed and chipped, in plastic cover. Light wear, contents clean and tidy. Size: 8vo. Ex-Library.
Published by London: Cresset Press 1959., 1959
Seller: Antiquariat Bergische Bücherstube Mewes, Overath, Germany
349 S., einige Taf. Reg Ln.mS. *Umschlag berieben. *Borneo, Malaysia.
Published by Cresset Press London 1959, 1959
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy 8vo. 349pp., frontis., b/w plates, text ills., fldg. map, index, Author parachuted into Japanese-held Borneo and led the Borneo Hill-Tribes into battle against the Japanese. Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket.