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Janet B. Montgomery McGovern
A widely traveled American writer and teacher, she turned firsthand journeys through Europe and Asia into vivid books for general readers. Her best-known work, Among the Headhunters of Formosa, draws on an extended stay in Taiwan during the 1910s and reflects a lifelong taste for adventure.
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Among the Head-Hunters of Formosa
by Janet B. Montgomery McGovern
About the author
Janet Blair Montgomery McGovern was an American traveler, author, and teacher. Sources available during this search describe her as a writer who traveled extensively in Europe and Asia and published books based on those experiences.
She is best known for Among the Headhunters of Formosa, a travel and observational account connected to her time in Taiwan under Japanese rule. A modern publisher's description presents her as a daring, globe-trotting American anthropologist and says she was drawn to Taiwan after first seeing the island on a voyage to Japan.
The biographical details that appeared consistently in the sources found here give her life dates as October 4, 1874, to December 30, 1938. I wasn't able to confirm a reliable portrait image from the pages I checked, so no profile image is included.