The Head Hunters of Borneo
Author | : Carl Bock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Borneo |
ISBN | : |
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The author's travels through Borneo and Sumatra.
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Author | : Carl Bock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Borneo |
ISBN | : |
The author's travels through Borneo and Sumatra.
Author | : Judith M. Heimann |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2009-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0547416067 |
A true story of downed B-24s in Japanese-occupied Borneo and a native tribe that “makes us—like the airmen—rethink our definitions of civilized and savage” (Entertainment Weekly). November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes—only to be met by loincloth-wearing natives silently materializing out of the mountainous jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen over to the hostile Japanese occupiers? Or would the Dayaks risk vicious reprisals to get the airmen safely home in a desperate game of hide-and-seek? A cinematic survival story featuring a bamboo airstrip built on a rice paddy, a mad British major, and a blowpipe-wielding army that helped destroy one of the last Japanese strongholds, The Airmen and the Headhunters is also a gripping tale of wartime heroism unlike any other you have read.
Author | : Andro Linklater |
Publisher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1994-01-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780871134776 |
The author describes his experiences living among the Iban, and recounts his attempts to understand their culture.
Author | : Carl Bock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Borneo |
ISBN | : 9789812617729 |
Author | : William Henry Furness |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Borneo |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Lyman |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030682468X |
Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle, deep within Japanese-held territory. Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, an OSS operative who was also a Soviet double agent, and General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's personal political adviser. Against the odds, all but one of the twenty-one people aboard the doomed aircraft survived-it remains the largest civilian evacuation of an aircraft by parachute. But they fell from the frying pan into the fire. Disentangling themselves from their parachutes, the shocked survivors discovered that they had arrived in wild country dominated by a tribe with a special reason to hate white men. The Nagas were notorious headhunters who routinely practiced slavery and human sacrifice, their specialty being the removal of enemy heads. Japanese soldiers lay close by, too, with their own brand of hatred for Americans. Among the Headhunters tells-for the first time-the incredible true story of the adventures of these men among the Naga warriors, their sustenance from the air by the USAAF, and their ultimate rescue. It is also a story of two very different worlds colliding-young Americans, exuberant apostles of their country's vast industrial democracy, coming face-to-face with the Naga, an ancient tribe determined to preserve its local power based on headhunting and slaving.
Author | : Carl Lumholtz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Borneo |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carl Lumholtz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Borneo |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carl Bock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1986-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780195826647 |
Author | : Christine Helliwell |
Publisher | : Penguin Group Australia |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2021-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 014379003X |
March 1945. A handful of young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island’s indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most have barely encountered Asian or indigenous people before, speak next to no Borneo languages, and know little about Dayaks, other than that they have been – and may still be – headhunters. They fear that on arrival the Dayaks will kill them or hand them over to the Japanese. For their part, some Dayaks have never before seen a white face. So begins the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret operation launched by the organisation codenamed Services Reconnaisance Department – popularly known as Z Special Unit – in the final months of WWII. Anthropologist Christine Helliwell has called on her years of first-hand knowledge of Borneo, interviewed more than one hundred Dayak people and all the remaining Semut operatives, and consulted thousands of military and other documents to piece together this astonishing story. Focusing on the operation's activities along two of Borneo’s great rivers – the Baram and Rejang – the book provides a detailed military history of Semut II’s and Semut III’s brutal guerrilla campaign against the Japanese, and reveals the decisive but long-overlooked Dayak role in the operation. But this is no ordinary history. Helliwell captures vividly the sounds, smells and tastes of the jungles into which the operatives are plunged, an environment so terrifying that many are unsure whether jungle or Japanese is the greater enemy. And she takes us into the lives and cavernous longhouses of the Dayaks on whom their survival depends. The result is a truly unique account of the encounter between two very different cultures amidst the savagery of the Pacific War.