- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Books; Reprint edition (Aug 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679740198
- ISBN-13: 978-0679740193
- Product Dimensions: 13 x 1.5 x 20.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,063,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Savages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos.
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'Poignant, occasionally hilarious, yet eschewing sentimentality, this is the true sequel to Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee' - Sunday Times; 'Uncommonly well-researched and elegantly written...free of sentimentality and romantic primitivism' - Guardian; 'Gripping' Sara Wheeler, Daily Telegraph; 'Savages has a mythic quality and a tug of sombre inevitability. Kane manages with a deft splicing of adventure and dramatic data to give this sad story urgency and vigour' - Isabel Fonseca, TLS --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
'Poignant, occasionally hilarious, yet eschewing sentimentality, this is the true sequel to Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee' - Sunday Times; 'Uncommonly well-researched and elegantly written...free of sentimentality and romantic primitivism' - Guardian; 'Gripping' Sara Wheeler, Daily Telegraph; 'Savages has a mythic quality and a tug of sombre inevitability. Kane manages with a deft splicing of adventure and dramatic data to give this sad story urgency and vigour' - Isabel Fonseca, TLS --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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THE PORT OF Coca sits on the north bank of the broad, brown Napo River, in the very heart of the Oriente, which may well be the richest biotic zone on the planet. Read the first page
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THE PORT OF Coca sits on the north bank of the broad, brown Napo River, in the very heart of the Oriente, which may well be the richest biotic zone on the planet. Read the first page
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I can't believe ... no one has reviewed it. It carries the weight of Mathieson's "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" with a much lighter method of storytelling. The events Kane describes are vital knowledge to anyone concerned about exactly who is destroying the environment/native peoples today and how. And his prose doesn't make you feel like killing yourself afterwards.
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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
A reaction from an anthropologist
11 Nov 2001
Format:Paperback
Although this book has been criticized by people with a background in anthropology, as a practicing anthropologist (with research expertise in media studies), I beg to disagree. Certainly, the book has weaknesses, and the fieldwork it is based on was flawed. Yet it presents a balanced view of Amazon peoples -- if one reads carefully one finds that they are NOT merely portrayed as "noble savages." Moreover, the book has a chance of reaching a FAR greater audience than most anthropology works ever do. I aspire to write as compellingly as Kane; it's about time anthropology had more of an impact on the world. I have done research and writing that is critical of journalists and journalism, but I'm aware that anthropological fieldwork is far from perfect, either. Instead of taking pot shots at a nuanced, in-depth view of the geo-political problems of indigenous peoples, we should celebrate the possibilities of collaborating with journalists as careful and sensitive as Kane.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
One of the best books I've ever read!
5 Jan 2001
Format:Paperback
I first read this book about two years ago and have since given copies as gifts to friends and have passed my own copy about to many colleagues. I work in the oil industry and I believe that this book is a MUST READ for all foreign workers in the Amazon region. My field of work involves protecting the interests of the local people and the health of the environment and I can assure the previous reviewer that while the oil companies have much to answer for historically that there is a small army of us working on the inside and who have found Savages to be one of the best books around. Joe Kane writes in journalistic style presenting events as they unfolded and he sheds light on several issues relating to foreign activity in developing countries that are seldom thought about by those who participate in the "invasion". Mr Kane's writing had me in fits of laughter at times and at other times I was in tears. By the end of the book I felt that I almost knew the people whose lives were discussed and I certainly closed the cover with a new understanding and questions that I had not asked myself before. Anyone contemplating a trip to the jungle of Ecuador, or other Amazonian nation, should make a point of reading this book. It is factual, interesting and tells a real life drama that describes the beginning of what will probably be the final days of the isolated people of the Amazon. It will be up to you as the reader to form an opinion on the situation as Kane doesn't do it for you. He does however raise the interesting question that may not be answered easily - what rights do isolated people have to remain isolated and completely unaffected by the development of the world? Read Savages for yourself and see if you can answer that question.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Great humour, deep sympathy and lots of action
15 Sep 1999
Format:Hardcover
Kane gives a very sympathetic yet never condoning view of a people that comes an incredible long way to take up the challenge of the most powerful industries in the world: the oil industry! The author relates his experiences with great humour reflecting one of the most outstanding characteristics of the Huaorani: they seem to be able to lough a lot inspite of it all! A most touching yet also entertaining book.
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