The Forest People

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THE FOREST PEOPLE
COLIN TURNBULL is the first white man who has been lucky enough — or perhaps sympathetic enough, in the original sense of the word—to be accepted by the pygmies as a friend. Previous explorers and anthropologists had contacted them only through the non-pygmy negroes who live in villages or on the edge of the forest. But Colin Turnbull was able to make direct contact with the pygmies, and he spent several years living with them in the forest, away from negro influences. There, he found, they became quite a different people, and the dark forest was soon transformed into a place of magical beauty.
The book is full of humorous incident, for the pygmies have a strong sense of fun and laugh immoderately at their own jokes. Colin Turnbull paints a vivid, and entirely credible picture of these simple, friendly and happy people. In these pages they come warmly to life. Yet when you close the book at the end, the most powerful impression that remains is perhaps that of... Tovább

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THE FOREST PEOPLE
COLIN TURNBULL is the first white man who has been lucky enough — or perhaps sympathetic enough, in the original sense of the word—to be accepted by the pygmies as a friend. Previous explorers and anthropologists had contacted them only through the non-pygmy negroes who live in villages or on the edge of the forest. But Colin Turnbull was able to make direct contact with the pygmies, and he spent several years living with them in the forest, away from negro influences. There, he found, they became quite a different people, and the dark forest was soon transformed into a place of magical beauty.
The book is full of humorous incident, for the pygmies have a strong sense of fun and laugh immoderately at their own jokes. Colin Turnbull paints a vivid, and entirely credible picture of these simple, friendly and happy people. In these pages they come warmly to life. Yet when you close the book at the end, the most powerful impression that remains is perhaps that of the great Forest itself, ^een, cool, and overwhelming in its immensity.
—From a review in the broadsheet
LOOKING AHEAD
JUNE ADDITIONAL G. M. TREVELYAN'S
IlllSTRATED ENGLISH SOCIAL HISTORY
The complete 4-volume set with 16 full-colour plates and over 600 monochrome illustrations. This major work of the great historian has, by its scholarship and literary quality, become a classic of universal and enduring value.
JULY
STRIKE THE FATHER DEAD
By JOHN WAIN In this widely acclaimed novel by one of the leading writers of today, the author explores the relationship between a widowed father and his son, who has rebelled against home life.
JULY ADDITIONAL
WIXGED VICTORY
A specially revised edition of V. M. Yeates' classic story of a R.F.C. squadron on the Western Front. On the book's first appearance in 1934 T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) described it as ' Admirable ; an imperishable pleasure '.
AUGUST
SCRIFEY
By PAUL GALLICO The author's fertile imagination is seen at its best in this amusing .novel, based on Sir Winston Churchill's wartime concern for the survival of the Barbary Apes of Gibraltar. ' Scruffy ' is the ugliest, roughest old villain of them all.
SEPTEMBER
CATCH-22
By JOSEPH HELLER This fiercv yei. comic war fantasy has been acclaimed by literary critics as cue of the most penetrating anti-war novels ever written.
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