Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds
✍ Scribed by Flannery, Tim
- Book ID
- 108997255
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 10 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780802191113
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✦ Synopsis
Tim Flannery is a scientist of international standing, a world expert on the fauna of New Guinea with twenty new species and seven books to his credit. In Throwim Way Leg , he takes us into the field and on an unforgettable journey into the heart of this mysterious and uncharted country. The result is a book of wonder and excitement, brimming with marvelous stories.
Flannery's scientific voyage leads him to places he never dreamed of: he camps among cannibals and befriends Femsep, a legendary warrior who led the slaughter of colonial whites decades before. He enters caves full of skeletons of long-extinct, giant marsupials, scales mountains previously untouched by Europeans, and is nearly killed when tribes people decide to take revenge for their prior mistreatment by his "clan" (wildlife scientists). And Flannery writes movingly of the fate of indigenous people in collision with the high-tech world of late-twentieth-century industry.
In New Guinea pidgin,...