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"Keep the River on Your Right: A modern cannibalism tale." An adventurous

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Manhattan-based artist with a strong interest in anthropology travels to Peru where he hears of a Catholic mission far into the Amazon jungle. He travels there and, after hearing of a primitive tribe further away, seeks them out and joins them. Murder and cannibalism ensue and lead him to give up a lifetime (he is middle-aged at the time) of painting and to travel to New Guinea to once again establish contact with a primitive tribe, this time living with them for years.
In the documentary, Tobias Schneebaum, now in his late 70s, travels back to those two areas to try and reestablish contact with the tribesmen that had accepted him amongst themselves.
This is a truly fascinating look not only into the lives of what "early Man's" existence must have been like, but also a riveting character study of an eccentric and charismatic adventurer.
Very highly recommended.

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Check out Leonard Clark's "The Rivers Ran East." - J.R. 09:50:25 07/11/09 (0)
Clark set up the OSS installations behind Japanese and Red Army lines
in WW2. After the war, perhaps rightly fearing that there were many
players too interested in the information he held, he disappeared on
an exploration of the Madre de Dios, the Peruvian rain forest where the
Andes meet the Amazon through the Ucalyi River drainage. He was the first
white man to enter this jungle hell and return to civilization; "The
Rivers Ran East" is his telling of the tale, and what a tale it is. Right
up there with Shackleton for harrowing adventures. He also wrote "The
Marching Wind," his account of his exploration of the Tibetan plateau:
this book will show you why the Chinese can never fully subjugate Tibet.
Regards,

J.R.

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