Read describes his lengthy sojurn as a research fellow among the
Gahuku tribes of New Guinea (Australian). Read is an oddball who,
by his own admission, is much too withdrawn in temperament to be
happy in contemporary society. He says he remembers his Gahuku
friends much more vividly than people he met last week. Strangely
enough, this retiring spirit also semi-incapacitated him as a field
researcher. His present book is a languid extolling of supernal
beauties of cloud and landscape and of his hesitant, subjective
relations with tribesmen. The natives, who welcomed him, had no
ability for abstract thought and were so aggressive, extroverted
and demonstrative that eventually they laid him low with a bleeding
ulcer which nearly killed him. As he withdraws fastidiously, life
is constantly foisted upon him. Fortunately he is an acute
observer, and he wrote for several hours each evening. The
friendships he formed occasion some of the best pages here - the
natives themselves rather than the author's sensibilities (he is
admittedly "unequivocally subjective") turn this into a fascinating
account. (Kirkus Reviews)
-- Hobart M. Van Deusen, "Natural History"
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