Book · 1955 · Nonfiction
Tristes Tropiques
Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 424 pages
★ 6.6 editorial score
Levi-Strauss opens by declaring he hates traveling and explorers, then takes you into Brazil's interior among the Bororo and Nambikwara. Science, memoir, and philosophy run together in mourning for what contact destroyed.
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