The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle by Philippe Descola, Janet Lloyd

The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle

Philippe Descola, Janet Lloyd

464 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction travel challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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The Spears of Twilight is the extraordinary story of three years among the legendary Jivaro Indians of South America by Philippe Descola, a student of Claude Levi-Strauss. Isolated in the jungle of the Upper Amazon on the border of Ecuador and Per...

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