{"product_id":"wild-man-9780299193447","title":"Wild Man","description":"\u003cp\u003ePart autobiographical journal, part social-historical novel, \u003ci\u003eWild Man\u003c\/i\u003e tracks Tobias Schneebaum's fascinating and almost epic life story, from his earliest contemplation of homoerotic desire through his life in Peru, Borneo, and beyond. A young man from New York, Schneebaum \"disappeared\" in 1955 on the eastern slopes of the Andes. He was, in actuality, living for more than a year among the remote Harakhambut people, discovering a way of being that was strange, primitive, and powerfully attractive to him. This longing to find the \"wild man\" in other cultures--and in himself--eventually led him on an odyssey through South America, India, Tibet, Africa, Borneo, New Guinea, and Southeast Asia. He lived among isolated forest peoples, including headhunters and cannibals, in regions where few, if any, white men had ever been.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTobias Schneebaum is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhere the Spirits Dwell\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKeep the River on Your Right\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSecret Places: My Life in New York and New Guinea\u003c\/i\u003e. From 1973 to 1983 he was assistant to the curator of the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. He is the subject of a documentary film, \u003ci\u003eKeep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Critic's Choice Award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival in 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318916092178,"sku":"9780299193447","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7972b707-8457-46f0-a022-70236241258e.jpg?v=1727562247","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wild-man-9780299193447","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}