{"product_id":"the-forest-people-9781847923806","title":"The Forest People","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Forest People \u003c\/i\u003eis an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor three years, Colin Turnbull lived with an isolated group of Pygmies deep in the forest of the African Congo, experiencing their daily life first-hand. He attended their hunting parties and initiation ceremonies, witnessed their music and their rituals, observed their quarrels and love affairs. He documented them as an anthropologist but was accepted among them as a friend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA ground-breaking work in its time, \u003ci\u003eThe Forest People\u003c\/i\u003e made him one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s. It remains a transporting account of an earthly paradise and of a legendary and fascinating people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a new foreword by Horatio Clare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife-enhancing, extraordinarily vivid … \u003cb\u003eIt is impossible to praise this book too highly\u003c\/b\u003e * Listener *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book of quite exceptional charm\u003c\/b\u003e * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe reader feels sheer delight in an entirely new world\u003c\/b\u003e -- Margaret Mead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmazing\u003c\/b\u003e ... It inspired me to seek out wild places -- Ray Mears","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742227247447,"sku":"9781847923806","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-forest-people-9781847923806","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}