In Search Of The Primitive
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner Binding condition: Binding intact, pages holding.
A landmark work of mid-twentieth century travel and anthropology, In Search of the Primitive chronicles Lewis Cotlow's extraordinary journeys to some of the most remote and isolated peoples on Earth. Drawing on firsthand encounters across Africa, the Amazon, and the Pacific, Cotlow presents vivid portraits of tribal societies living far beyond the reach of modern civilisation. Written with the eye of an adventurer and the curiosity of an ethnographer, the narrative captures rituals, customs, and ways of life that were already vanishing at the time of writing. This compelling account stands as both a personal adventure story and an invaluable document of human diversity, recorded with urgency and wonder before the tide of modernity swept these cultures away.
Author: Lewis Cotlow
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, Robert Hale Limited
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner Binding condition: Binding intact, pages holding.
A landmark work of mid-twentieth century travel and anthropology, In Search of the Primitive chronicles Lewis Cotlow's extraordinary journeys to some of the most remote and isolated peoples on Earth. Drawing on firsthand encounters across Africa, the Amazon, and the Pacific, Cotlow presents vivid portraits of tribal societies living far beyond the reach of modern civilisation. Written with the eye of an adventurer and the curiosity of an ethnographer, the narrative captures rituals, customs, and ways of life that were already vanishing at the time of writing. This compelling account stands as both a personal adventure story and an invaluable document of human diversity, recorded with urgency and wonder before the tide of modernity swept these cultures away.