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Savage Harvest: A Tale Of Cannibals, Colonialism, And Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest For Primitive Art (2014)

by Carl Hoffman(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0062116150 (ISBN13: 9780062116154)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

William Morrow

review 1: Fascinating, well researched, page turner of a non fiction work investigating Michael Rockerfellerʻs disappearance in Papua New Guinea. A notch up from Lunatic Express, the previous title from Hoffman, but he is still putting himself through physical rigours to get the book. Great book to recommend to male readers and those who like to push the boundaries of their reading world. The mix of whodunnut, true crime, anthropology, history has just the right flavour.
review 2: Fascinating from the start. Hoffman investigates the unsolved death of Michael Rockefeller (age 23, in 1961.) The investigation touches on many interesting aspects of the "case": Nelson Rockefeller's personal world, the world of art in NYC at the time, the arena of "primitive" art, the politic... mores of New Guinea, both Dutch colonial and more current, but, above all, the curiously almost unknowable peoples of New Guinea, and, whether they could have, in 1961, actually cannibalized an outsider. It could be a wonderful companion piece to The People of the Trees. less

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