Keep the River on Your Right
by Tobias Schneebaum
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Author: Tobias SchneebaumEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-01-12
ISBN: 0802131336
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Grove Press
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Book Review: reality as mystery
Summary: 5 Stars
if you are looking for a reading experience that is unique (not kind of, sort, of or very--none of which are unique) this book is it. in flight from loveless doldrums of his life, schneebaum, a painter and seeming nebish, launches himself, weaponless and without an agenda, into the unknown. he opens himself totally to the experience of whatever may befall him. abandons all expectation, denies fear the power to control his experience, and walks into uncharted jungle to meet and share life with an apparently murderous tribe of flesh eating headhunters. the jungle, the tribe, and the relationships he establishes are all facinating. what is stunning for me is his willingness to stick with describing his own experience, without judging, explaining, interpreting or desmystifying any of it. he always acknowledges the mystery and incredible unknowability of reality and in so doing the terrible and inspiring beauty of it. not what it ought to be, but what it is like for him, always a mystery. what it could be like for us had we the courage. I don't , but it is a great read about someone who does.
Summary of Keep the River on Your Right
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.
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