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Keep the River on Your Right Paperback – January 12, 1994

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The author of the classic Keep the River on Your Right here tells the remarkable story of his four years among the Asmat of New Guinea, a jungle-dwelling people rumored to have killed Michael Rockefeller. Instead of ferocious cannibals, Schneebaum found a regal, loving, gentle people who freely accepted him and initiated him into a way of life no outsider had ever seen before. Adopted into an Asmat family in the village whose people were said to have killed Rockefeller, he crossed the boundaries into another culture and another age, learning secrets no other outsider had been allowed to see before. But it wasn’t until Schneebaum met Akatpitsjin, a handsome married man with five children, that he entered the erotic world of the Asmat, when the two became “exchange friends’ and lovers, a practice basic to the sexual life of the village.

Schneebaum’s encounter with the Asmat ultimately became something more intimate and liberating for him than the mere discovery of tribal secrets. He confronted himself. His odyssey is as much the record of a journey into himself as it is a unique and sensitively observed account of a vanishing society, written with a shimmering sensuality that has no equal in the literature of anthropology or self-confession.

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    January 12, 1994
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  6. ISBN-10
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In 1955, armed with a penknife and the instructions 'Keep the river on your right, ' the Brooklyn-born painter Tobias Schneebaum set off into the trackless jungles of Peru in search of a tribe of cannibals.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0802131336
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grove Press; Reissue edition (January 12, 1994)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780802131331
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0802131331
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.41 x 0.56 x 8.25 inches
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J. Kevin White
5.0 out of 5 stars What can a cannibal teach you about love and friendship?
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Schneebaum conveys the interior and exterior worlds he passes through as he makes his way to a tribe of cannibals in Amazonian Peru in an approachable and intimate style. The name of the tribe in the book is not its actual name, but it is easy enough to learn with a Google search. Schneebaum conveys the impressions of his travels with an openness, vulnerability, and a sense of wonder that is mostly missing in today's neurotically self-conscious that is terrified of being judged as having judged. It is hard to believe that the people he describes in the book lived the way they did not all that many years ago. By the end of the book, I was looking at our present society through the eyes of the tribe he lived with and asking myself if one is more moral or right than the other and if the question even makes sense. Great read!
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interesting experiences
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4.0 out of 5 stars Although his story is quite unique and incredible, and ...
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Although his story is quite unique and incredible, and I truly admire his intrepid and spirited forays into uncharted and deadly territory, I did not find myself glued to the book as one that you couldn't put down.
Was it his style of writing... his narration...? I'm not sure.
Although, with the exception of his brief incursion into cannibalism, I duly envy his incredibly dauntless experience.
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Cathleen M. Walker
5.0 out of 5 stars What an amazing journey!
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This writer was so far ahead of his time! What a courageous journey, to step out on faith to find the core of man; "gone primitive," as they say. And we call ourselves civilized? Who are we to judge?

This man acknowledges his own cannabilistic behavior within the context of his living in a tribe where this behavior was common. It was not premeditated, at least according to him, nor did he have any idea where he was going or what the plan was when he was girded up for war with the tribe that had become his family.

But never has a man been more empathic or compassionate, either - staying with a loved one who was dying from dysentery until they both stank, and no one else would come close.

The book reads like a poem, it is a beautiful, eye-opening, heart rending read. I wish I had known this man. He seems amazing.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tobias Schneebaum is one of a kind
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All this author's books have been fascinating. This one is about living deep in the jungles of Peru with the cannibal tribe of the Akaramas. He is an engaging writer who writes from a deeply personal and candid perspective.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Book in great shape.
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2019
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I was interested in this book due to an interview that I saw. I am pleased with this book and I am enjoying the author's experience.
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Samuel Johnson Stoever
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and Rewarding Book, a Must Read!
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2015
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Artfully written, and as much a ethnological piece as it is a story of personal discovery. A short, easy read but I walk away from the book with such an invigorating perspective that I plan to recommend the book to all my friends and family.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Vendeur efficace
Reviewed in France on October 12, 2019
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Produit d’occasion en bon état, arrivé avant la date prévue.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Aventure humaine
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Superbe leçon de vie, d'humanité, d'approche de la difference, d'adaptation, d'intelligence...Avec Tobias, on devient tous ethnologue, un peu, beaucoup, passionement!
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