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Guppy, Nicholas

Wai-Wai; Through the Forests North of the Amazon

1958

42.30 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Year of publication
1958
Place of printing
New York. E. P. Dutton & Co.
Author
Guppy, Nicholas
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Travel - South America Native Peoples Anthropology Wapisianas
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [21.5 x 14.5 cm]; x, 375 pp, illustrations from photos, endpaper maps showing author's route, profile of Serra Acarai Rain Forest, index and glossary. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, corner slightly bumped, clean and near fine in good dj (rubbed, spine end chipped, but not price clipped). A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author was the first white man to penetrate these forests of Amazonia drained by the upper parts of the Rio Trombetas in British Guiana near the Brazilian border, where he found tribes of Indians whose existence was only legendary up to then. He describes the native peoples, their activities, customs, beliefs, religion, as well as the botany and the rain forests, based on two expeditions over a four year period. Guppy, the first to write of the people there, describes their art as becoming increasingly abstract and the reasons for it.