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Title: Savages by Joe Kane ISBN: 0-679-74019-8 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another good one by Joe Kane
Comment: Have you read Kane's Running the Amazon? Here's another good one. It even won the Bay Area Book Reviewers Assoc Award in 1995. Kane travels to Ecuador to live for a while with the Huaorani tribal people as their Stone Age culture bumps against the 20th Century.
The Huaorani eventually befriended Kane, but at the beginning, it was just as likely that they might murder him, as they had fairly recently killed a missionary and several others they considered enemies. Something about Kane made them feel comfortable - lucky for him.
Kane intersperses magical vignettes of tribal life with historical and sociological information in a way that makes his book imminently readable by ordinary readers like me as well as my scholars and sociologists.
It's a good one.
Rating: 3
Summary: A good memoir.
Comment: June 18, 2002
This is a well written book, but not an inclusive
piece of research. The author writes of his
experiences in South America with skill and passion,
but a reader should come to the story with the full
knowledge that he is reading the work of an interested
observer and not that of an anthropologist, or
sociologist, or even much of an activist.
Still, I'd recommend this book to someone who wouldn't
normally be interested in the subject matter. It's a
pleasurable and moving read. Author Joe Kane seems
more interested in the people he met during his travels
than in cleansing or condemning his various subjects.
Persons truly interested in the puzzle that is big oil,
bad politics and embattled natives in South America,
however, will probably finish 'Savages' with as many
questions as answers.
Rating: 3
Summary: A bit implausible
Comment: Although this book gives a clear warning about the effects of "Civilized world"'s greed for oil, it is somewhat too much fictionalized to be fully credible. It's a pity, because the basic idea is good.
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Title: Running the Amazon by Joe Kane ISBN: 067972902X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Neotropical Companion by John Kricher ISBN: 0691009740 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 16 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador by Allen Gerlach ISBN: 0842051082 Publisher: Scholarly Resources Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Tropical Nature : Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America by Adrian Forsyth ISBN: 0684187108 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 29 January, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak ISBN: 0674004329 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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