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Hunting The Gugu - In Search Of THe Last Ape-Men Of Sumatra (Paperback, Main)
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Discovery Miles 3 650
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Hunting The Gugu - In Search Of THe Last Ape-Men Of Sumatra (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R365
Discovery Miles 3 650
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Since the 1980s, Benedict Allen has traversed the globe in the
enquiring spirit of the great Victorian explorers, pitting himself
against nature and frequently hostile environments. On each of his
expeditions, which generally involve daunting months alone with the
world's remotest "tribal" peoples, he has turned his experiences
into a publication that has enriched the reader's understanding of
places that would otherwise remain inacessible to surely even the
most hardy traveller. The world is brimming with legends of missing
links, from Yeti to Big-Foot. It was these kinds of strange
travellers' tales that lured Benedict Allen to the vast green
island of Sumatra, in this exploration of myth, reality, and our
place in the great scheme of things. His inspiration was Theodore
Hull, a muscular octogenarian survivor of Japanese prison camps,
who encouraged him to set out on the trail of the lost ape-men
known as the Gugu. Through a tangle of folktales, Allen found the
aboriginal Kubu people, who offered him guidance into the highlands
where the ferocious ape-people were said to gibber and screech all
night long. And so, knowing that to find the last of the
black-manned ape-men would add
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