Into the heart

by Good, Kenneth.

This is an absorbing, thrilling account of an American anthropologist’s foray into the heart of the Amazon, where for twelve years he lived among the Yanomama, learned their language, was accepted into their world, fell in love with one of their women, then found himself in a harrowing life-and- death struggle to keep from losing her. When Ken Good first traveled down the Orinoco to the Amazon rain forest, he was a student of Napoleon Chagnon, the scholar who first introduced the world to those he called “the fierce people,” a Stone Age tribe who lived on hallucinogenic drugs and reveled in...

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