Marika Hanbury-Tenison (1938 - 1982) Occupation/Field of Study: journalist Period of Activity: 1901-1950; 1951-2000; Biography Born in 1938, English journalist Marika Hanbury-Tenison went to South America, Indonesia, and Malaysia during the 1970s to study tribal cultures. She was the wife of noted Cornish explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison, and her first significant trip was to accompany him to the Brazilian jungle in 1971. At that time, indigenous tribes were being forced from their lands by developers, and many of them had congregated in encampments established by the British government or private charitable groups. The Hanbury-Tenisons visited these camps to speak with local people and study their living conditions. After returning to Great Britain in 1972, Marika Hanbury-Tenison wrote about their findings in For Better, For Worse: To the Brazilian Jungles and Back Again (1972), published in some countries as Tagging Along (1972). Meanwhile, her husband published a more scholarly work on the same subject, A Question of Survival for the Indians of Brazil (1973). In 1973, the Hanbury-Tenisons again visited tribes, this time in Indonesia. As with Brazil, this was a region where indigenous people were being pushed from their lands, and, in many cases, they were reacting with violence. Nonetheless, the Hanbury-Tenisons managed to visit about a dozen tribes without being attacked, although Marika did become ill during her travels. She wrote about her Indonesian adventures in A Slice of Spice (1974), a popular work in contrast to her husband's more scholarly A Pattern of Peoples: A Journey among the Tribes of Outer Indonesian Islands (1975). Marika Hanbury-Tenison made her last research trip with her husband in 1979, when the couple visited Malaysia as part of a Royal Geographical Society scientific expedition. Shortly thereafter she was diagnosed with cancer. She died in 1982. -The Encyclopedia of Women's Travel and Exploration, Patricia D. Netzley 2001 Publications For Better, For Worse: To the Brazilian Jungles and Back Again Marika Hanbury-Tenison (1972) Book: Travel Memoir/Diary/Journal;