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Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel Everett
39.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Daniel Everett took his family to convert the Pirahas (pronounced pee-da-HAN), a remote people of the Amazonian jungle whose language no outsider had yet been able to understand. They encountered malaria, snakes, jaguars, spiders, insects, and a plot to kill them as they slept. But Everett gradually gai ...Show more
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes - Life and language in the Amazonian jungle by Daniel Everett
29.99 NZD
Category: Adventure | Reading Level: very good
Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the wor ...Show more
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