Tobias Schneebaum here tells the remarkable story of his four years among the Asmat of New Guinea, a jungle-dwelling people rumored to have killed Michael Rockefeller. Instead of ferocious cannibals, Schneebaum found a regal, gentle people who freely accepted him and initiated him into a way of life no outsider had ever seen before.
Part autobiographical journal, part social-historical novel, this book tracks Tobias Scheebaum's almost epic life story, from his youth through his life in Peru, Borneo and beyond. A young man from New York, Schneebaum "disappeared" in 1955 on the slopes of the Andes. He lived for more than a year among the remote Harakhambut people, discovering a ...
In this memoir, the painter Tobias Schneebaum recounts his unusual experience as an adopted member of the Amarakaire tribe who live in the Amazon, where he ventured as a Fulbright scholar in the 1960s. Though declared dead by the United States State Department, Schneebaum was actually living among this tribe of cannibals, even accompanying them in ...
In this biography, Schneebaum seeks to intertwine the varied strands of his experience, pondering his life as a gay Jewish New Yorker and his years amongst the Asmat. The result justaposes the Asmat celebration of the spirits of the dead and New York, plagued by AIDS, and its own sad spirits.
A unique journey into the culture of the Asmat of New Guinea, a jungle-dwelling people barely touched by modern civilization. Schneebaum's odyssey is a sensitive account of a vanishing society open to sexual relations between men. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon.
Date Published: 1959
Description: Octavo, lemon boards with black-green titling to spine and illustration of a monkey on a branch to top board. An ex-library copy with stamps. Removed labels to rear endpapers and dustwrapper blurb from inner flap pasted to front pastedown. Label to heel of spine. Textblock is clean. read more
Description: With striking illustrations on every page, printed in blue, green & black spot colors. [33]pp. Slim 8vo, yellow pictorial cloth, edgeworn d.w. New York: Pantheon, 1959. First edition. A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. An unusual, true story of young Tobias who, without a compass or a gun, went all alone into the jungles of Peru. Told in verse by Miller, and illustrated by Tobias himself. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: (Tiber Press. )
Date Published: 1954
Description: Illustrated by Schneebaum. Very Good with no dust jacket. We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible.; Color Illustrations; Folio 13"-23" tal; 13 pages; (Tiber Press. ) text by Bourjaily, Vance. The Girl in The Abstract Bed. New York, (1954). #112/1500. Illus. By Tobias Schneebaum. Folio, orig. Pictorial stiff red wrappers portfolio. With 13 color plates mounted on printed flexible bds. Title & mount bds. Mounting boards are toned, a few plates ... read more
Edition: First
Binding: paperback
Publisher: Tiber Press
Date Published: 1954
Description: Schneebaum. Fine. 17 watercolor and silk screen prints by Schneebaum created for the work written by Bourjaily (no text included included ). Printed on thick stock in various sizes, approximately 11 x 15 inches, loose in an original blue card portfolio silk-screened in white and brown. (N.Y. : Tiber Press, 1954). This portfolio contains working and nearly finished original watercolor plates for the book that would be published by the Tiber Press in an edition of 1558 (1500 regular and 58 ... read more
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