Redmond O'Hanlon
Redmond O'Hanlon
Early life and education
O'Hanlon was born in
Though very religious when he was young, O'Hanlon became an
Career
From 1970–74, O'Hanlon was a member of the literature panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain.[2]
He was elected a member of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History in 1982, a Fellow of the
O'Hanlon has become known for his journeys into some of the most remote jungles of the world,[2] in Borneo, the Amazon basin and Congo. He has also written a harrowing account of a trip to the North Atlantic on a trawler.[4]
Between September 2009 and May 2010, O'Hanlon was a guest and co-presenter on the programme
He attended the
In November 2011 VPRO Television began broadcasting O'Hanlons helden (English: O'Hanlon's heroes).[7] In this eight-part series O'Hanlon introduces the viewer to his heroes of the nineteenth century. The programme was awarded with the prestigious Dutch television award, De Zilveren Nipkowschijf (English: The Silver Nipkow disk). This Silver 1st prize is awarded annually by a professional jury to the best quality television programme. A second eight-part series of O'Hanlons helden was broadcast in the winter of 2013–2014.[8]
Published works
- Charles Darwin 1809–1882: A Centennial Commemoration (1982) (contributor)
- Joseph Conrad and Charles Darwin: The Influence of Scientific Thought on Conrad's Fiction (1984)
- Into the Heart of Borneo (1984)
- In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon (1988)
- Congo Journey (1996), American edition: No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo (1997)[9]
- Trawler (2005)
- [with Rudy Rotthier] God, Darwin en natuur (2009), English translation: The Fetish Room (2011)
References
- ^ " He had been very religious as a boy — 'You have to be to survive being brought up in a vicarage' — but he became, on discovering Darwin at 14, not merely an agnostic, but a militant atheist, much to his father's distress. They still don't talk about it. His mother, he says, is also very religious but in an emotional way: 'She believes that in heaven she will be reunited with every spaniel she has ever owned.' While O'Hanlon was away in Africa, his older brother, a book rep, took Belinda and the children to communion. O'Hanlon was shocked, but 'I decided not to be angry about it. A real atheist, you see, is not exercised about it.' " Lynn Barber interviewing O'Hanlon, 'Carry On Up the Congo', The Observer, 13 October 1996, The Observer Review Page, Pg. 7.
- ^ a b "Redmond O'Hanlon: Biography". British Council. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ^ "Redmond O'Hanlon". Penguin Books. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ISBN 1-4000-7810-5.
- ^ "Beagle website". VPRO. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
- ^ "Meet the Future, Science & Technology Summit 2010". Platform Bèta Techniek (PBT). Archived from the original on 2 May 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ "O'Hanlons Helden website" (in Dutch). VPRO. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ "Overzicht O'Hanlons Helden Deel 2" (in Dutch). VPRO. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ "No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo, Vintage Books". Knopf Doubleday. Retrieved 4 October 2014.