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 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.
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
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