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New York : Dover Publications, 1988.
Description
Presents the author's birth and youth among the coastal Yaghans in Tierra del Fuego and his adult initiation into the Ona tribe, with descriptions of the extinct Fuegian Indian culture.
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LibraryThing member NickDuberley
Travels in time as well as space. The tribes' people Bridges described are now long gone, along with their culture and knowledge of their land.
One of the best books of its kind.
One of the best books of its kind.
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556 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
0486257517 / 9780486257518
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