The Last Tribes On Earth: Journeys Among The World's Most Threatened Cultures

The Last Tribes On Earth: Journeys Among The World's Most Threatened Cultures by Paul Raffaele


ISBN
9780732911713
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Dimensions
153 x 230 x 25mm

From the rainforests of Papua and the Central African Republic to the Himalayan kingdom of Mustang and our own Australian outback, 'The Last Tribes On Earth' is award-winning journalist Paul Raffaele's adventure-packed account of his journeys to some of the world's most isolated and endangered peoples and cultures.

With an eye for detail and gentle humour, Raffaele describes the tree-house village of the cannibal Korowai, where he is offered spiders for breakfast and arouses much suspicion when he tries to explain what horses, prostitutes and skyscrapers are. He is chased by an elephant and challenged by a silverback gorilla while with pygmies in an African rainforest under threat of logging.

On the back of a Tibetan pony, he makes his way to the remote walled city of Lo Manthang, where he chases demons from the city in an age-old festival. Finally returning to Australia he journeys through the desert with Aranda tribal elders, learns about the kadaitcha man, a ritual assassin, and seeks out the home of the Rainbow Serpent.

'The Last Tribes On Earth' is both a travel book and a cultural treasure trove, laced with humour, danger and vivid description of people and places whose very existence is now threatened by the inroads of logging, tourism and cultural disintergration.
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