Orang-Utan

by Barbara Harrison and Barbara Harrisson

Book Overview

During the 1950s, the Sarawak house of Barbara Harrisson and her late husband Tom became a home for orphaned baby orangu-tan who had been found helpless in the jungle. Here, she describes her experiences rearing orang-utan in a half-wild state and her attempt to re-educate them to jungle life. The Harrissons decided eventually that their partially domesticated animals would have great difficulty surviving in the wild-- yet keeping full-sized orang-utans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195888634
• ISBN13: 9780195888638
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"