Part autobiographical journal, part social-historical novel, Wild Man tracks Tobias Schneebaum's fascinating and almost epic life story, from his earliest contemplation of homoerotic desire through his life in Peru, Borneo, and beyond. A young man from New York, Schneebaum "disappeared" in 1955 on the eastern slopes of the Andes. He was, in actuality, living for more than a year among the remote Harakhambut people, discovering a way of being that was strange, primitive, and powerfully attractive to him. This longing to find the "wild man" in other cultures—and in himself—eventually led him on an odyssey through South America, India, Tibet, Africa, Borneo, New Guinea, and Southeast Asia. He lived among isolated forest peoples, including headhunters and cannibals, in regions where few, if any, white men had ever been.

Wild Man (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Tobias Schneebaum

Social Sciences

University of Wisconsin Press

In 1955, armed with a penknife and instructions to keep the river on his right, Brooklyn-born artist Tobias Schneebaum set off into the jungles of Peru in search of a tribe of cannibals. Forgoing all contact with civilization, he lived as a brother with the Akaramas –– shaving and painting his body, hunting with Stone Age weapons, sleeping in the warmth of the body-pile.

Keep the River on Your Right

History

Americas

SPHERE

Keep The River On Your Right

GROVE PRESS

Grove Press, 1988

They Went: The Art and Craft of Travel Writing (The Writer's Craft)

Six renowned travel writers describe the creative process involved in this popular form of narrative, drawing on their own works to reveal how to create a sense of place

IAN FRAZIER

Andrea Lee

Calvin Trillin

Mark Salzman

Vivian Gornick

Literature & Fiction

Houghton/Mifflin

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