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Savage Civilisation

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MR. TOM HARRISSON was a member of the Oxford University expedition to the New Hebrides in 1933. When the expedition left the islands he elected to remain behind, and spent a year living as a native among the natives, was for a time an official, and ended by taking part in a cinematograph film.

Savage Civilisation

By Tom Harrisson. Pp. 461 + 32 plates. (London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1937.) 16s. net.

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Savage Civilisation. Nature 139, 568–569 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139568a0

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