Wild People: Travels with Borneo's Head-Hunters

by Andro Linklater (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $16.65

  The author describes his experiences living among the Iban, and recounts his attempts to understand their culture.

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $3.26

  To fulfil the criteria of Andro Linklater's original assignment, the Iban people of Sarawak were supposed to be noble, bare-breasted savages in dugout canoes, practising age-old rituals - primitive enough to be included in a project called Wild People of the Earth , initiated by Time-Life Books. In the event, the Iban simply wouldn't do. They did decorate their homes with heads not their own, but they also possessed outboard motors, chainsaws and I love New York T-shirts. The project was abandoned, but Linklater was captivated and wrote this funny and often poignant book.