Wild man / by Tobias Schneebaum ; with illustrations by the author ; new foreword by David Bergman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneebaum, Tobias.

Contributor:

Bergman, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages and travels.

Schneebaum, Tobias--Travel.

Schneebaum, Tobias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

""Acknowledgments ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Chapter 1 ""; ""Chapter 2 ""; ""Chapter 3 ""; ""Chapter 4 ""; ""Chapter 5 ""; ""Chapter 6 ""; ""Chapter 7 ""; ""Chapter 8 ""; ""Chapter 9 ""; ""Chapter 10 ""

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1979.

ISBN:

9786612896002

9781282896000

1282896008

9780299193430

0299193438

OCLC:

671648562