Wild man
Part autobiographical journal, part social-historical novel, Wild Man tracks Tobias Schneebaum's fascinating and almost epic life story, from his earliest contemplation of homoerotic desire through his life in Peru, Borneo, and beyond. A young man from New York, Schneebaum "disappeared" in 1955 on the eastern slopes of the Andes. He was, in actuality, living for more than a year among the remote Harakhambut people, discovering a way of being that was strange, primitive, and powerfully attractiv…
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- Full title :Wild man / by Tobias Schneebaum ; with illustrations by the author ; new foreword by David Bergman.
Summary
Part autobiographical journal, part social-historical novel, Wild Man tracks Tobias Schneebaum's fascinating and almost epic life story, from his earliest contemplation of homoerotic desire through his life in Peru, Borneo, and beyond. A young man from New York, Schneebaum "disappeared" in 1955 on the eastern slopes of the Andes. He was, in actuality, living for more than a year among the remote Harakhambut people, discovering a way of being that was strange, primitive, and powerfully attractive to him. This longing to find the "wild man" in other cultures - and in himself - eventually led him on an odyssey through South America, India, Tibet, Africa, Borneo, New Guinea, and Southeast Asia. He lived among isolated forest peoples, including headhunters and cannibals, in regions where few, if any, white men had ever been
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- Publication Date:©2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Wisconsin Press
- Place of Publication:Madison, Wis
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxix, 243 pages) : : illustrations, maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780299193430, 0299193438, 1282896008, 9781282896000, 9786612896002, 6612896000
- oclc:ocn671648562
- LC Classification:G465
- Dewey Decimal:910/.92
Table of Contents
Cover13; -- Acknowledgments13; -- Foreword13; -- Introduction13; -- Chapter 113; -- Chapter 213; -- Chapter 313; -- Chapter 413; -- Chapter 513; -- Chapter 613; -- Chapter 713; -- Chapter 813; -- Chapter 913; -- Chapter 1013.
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