- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Ebury Press (6 April 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0091870224
- ISBN-13: 978-0091870225
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,646,733 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Over 30 years, Desmond Morris has made numerous journeys to every continent and every corner of the globe in search of material, exploring and examining the varieties of human society. The result is full of adventures and misadventures, revealing the nature of mankind.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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An excellent book by a fascinating man,
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This review is from: The Naked Eye: Travels in Search of the Human Species (Paperback)
The Naked Eye is a book which takes you on a fascinating journey with an intriguing man. We travel around the world with Desmond Morris and his crew as he attempts to record his observations of the human race, relentless in his attempt to unite the world in terms of common traits and manners. He selects the highlights of his past 30 years travels, and we laugh with him as he comes face-to-face with ferocious crocodiles, gangsters in LA, lap-dancers in Las Vegas, primitive tribes in Africa... This book offers a wonderful insight into one man's fascinating life, we become absorbed in his desire to study and record human behaviour and by the end of the book are sorry that our travels with him have to end. An easy-to-read part autobiography, part travel guide with something to interest everyone.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Once again off on an anthropological field trip,
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This review is from: The Naked Eye: Travels in Search of the Human Species (Paperback)
In the Naked Eye we are once again off with Desmond Morris on an anthropological field trip. And I must confess that I love it. Obviously it is much harder observing humans than zebras. After all a zebra never walks up to you and asks question. But humans are that much more fun. In the book we learn about arab gestures. That black underwear ensures pregnancy. That the original medieval football is still played in some places in England, and that it was called football, because the players were so poor that they couldn't afford a horse. etc. All of this in just one book. What a delight! Simon
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Great read,
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This review is from: The Naked Eye: Travels in Search of the Human Species (Paperback)
Read this book a few years ago and remember it being a cross between an autobiography and nature book. Fantastic anecdotes which include David Attenborough... Bought it recently as a gift.
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