ISBN: 9780803231825 - the king of the world in the land of the pygmies (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:0803231822.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. xvi + 276 pages, photos in the text, notes, bibliography, index.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 276 pages. tidy ex libraryJoan Mark offers an interpretive biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904? ??53), who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a harmonious multiracial community. He modeled his camp on the ?dude ranches? of the American West, taking in paying guests while running a medical clinic an d occasionally offering legal aid to the local people, and assumed the role of i ntermediary between locals and visitors, including Colin M. Turnbull, author of the classic Forest People. Mark describes Putnam?s mercurial relations with fa mily and with his African and American wives?and follows him to his sad and vi olent end. She places Patrick Putnam within the context of three different anthr opological traditions and examines his contribution as an expert on pygmies.…

Zustand: Very Good.