Name: Under The Mountain Wall
SKU: 65494786
Price: 715.00 TWD
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Author: Peter Matthiessen
ISBN: 9780099575672

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Vintage

Author

Peter Matthiessen

Year

2012

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20x13.1x2.1 cm

ISBN13

9780099575672

Under The Mountain Wall

Peter Matthiessen (Author) · Vintage · Paperback

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Synopsis "Under The Mountain Wall"

In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu.

In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu. Matthiessen joined the Harvard-Peabody Expedition of 1961which set out to study the tribe as unobtrusively as possible, living among the Kurelu for two seasons. The result was this classic account, not of the expedition but of a lost culture; the Kurelu''s timeless rhythms of work and play, of warriorship, feasting and funerals. In Under the Mountain Wall Matthiessen illuminates the lives of the Kurelu''s with respect and sympathy, capturing a culture untouched by civilisation and vanishing along with the wilderness lying beneath the dramatic peaks of the Snow Mountains.