Vanishing Primitive Man - Timothy Severin

With 415 illustrations

KORTE INHOUD

In an age when we look to the heavens for new frontiers, it is easy to forget the outspots on earth where a fast-disappearing breed of man is still at one with the land off which he lives. The primitive people reside there, much as their ancestors did thousand of years ago. They are among the most fascinating members of the family of man and, much more than most of us, they are struggling to retain an identity in the face of ever-advancing modern civilization.
In this superbly illustrated book, Timothy Severin introduces ten principal groups of primitive man who are as divergent in appearance, history and mores as they are widely separated geographically. From the Aborigines of Australia to the pygmies of Africa and the Eskimos of the North; from the Polynesians and South African Bushmen to the Indians of the Amazon Basin, here is the drama of the lives and history of earth's few and fast-diminishing primordial races.
Each authoritative chapter combines the accounts of explorers whose records form the basis of ...
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1973Uitgever: Thames and Hudson379 paginasTaal: Engels