I loved this book. I am not much on reviews, but I had to speak my mind on this one. Sidney Huntington was born to an English-Scot father and a Athapaskan Indian mother in 1915 in Hughes Alaska. This is on the Koyukuk River in central Alaska. These were hard times, but these were very hardy people. The likes of which you do not see anymore. This story is of Sidney's life growing up there as told to Jim Rearden, who did a great job in telling this story. It is filled with adventure, heart ache, even death, but it is a great story. If you love adventure and Alaska this is the book for you. I highly recommed it. He is a truly great man..

This book is full of fantastic stories I have never read anywhere before. I especially liked the last story, which is a ghostly tale set in the jungle. The stories are very exciting but they also give you information about the rain forest. Saviour Pirotta visited my school in London for our book week and he told us some of his favourite stories. It made me buy the book. Saviour writes stories based in many countries round the world, not just England or America.

One of the earliest, and very well written, accounts of life on the upper Missouri River. This is a classic of the fur trade era. Bradbury, a botanist, went up the Missouri with the famous Astorian overland expedition of William Price Hunt, Ramsay Crooks, Donald McKenzie, naturalist Thomas Nuttall and others in 1811. His descriptions of Indian life, geology, botany, geography and overall life as it was in 1811 being so far removed from civiliztion is incredible. He was a very articulate and keen observer of the world around him. Bradbury gives further insight into Manuel Lisa, John Colter, Henry Brackenridge, trading with the Indians, etc. The last chapter he devotes to the soon to be mass immigration into the western parts of the United States. His thoughts on this are ahead of his time. There is simply too much good to say about this timeless masterpiece. The book itself may be somewhat difficult to find, but it is worth looking for. A+

Photographs in black and white, as well as color, document the life of some tribes found in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. Tribes such as the Yanomami and Kampa are shown at work and at play in this endangered rain forest. The reader is furnished with images and words that give a glimpse into tribal life in this most important part of the world.

Mr. Hagerty certainly does know his topic! I have thoroughly enjoyed every page of this book.

This book is an absolute "must read" for anyone interested in human violence. The Waorani were perhaps the most violent people on earth until peace was brokered by missionaries. They were the terror of their neighbors, but they also killed each other; peace may have saved them from self-destruction. The Robarcheks had previously studied the Semai Senoi of Malaysia, who lived in a similar way--by shifting cultivation in tropical rainforest--but were virtually without any violence, ranking as probably the most peaceful of humans. The Robarcheks sought to see why such similar societies (which even raise their children in broadly similar ways) had such extreme differences in violence level. The most important finding was that both groups were menaced by, and afraid of, stronger neighbors. The Waorani could fight back, but could be secure only if they could truly terrorize their stronger enemies; the Semai could only flee, and learned to deal with danger by flight rather than by fight. The two cultures developed many social and psychological mechanisms for reinforcing these differences. The Robarcheks use these examples to reject naive theories that claim humans are violent or aggressive by nature. In fact, human cultures vary enormously in their approaches toward violence, and humans vary their behavior accordingly. Implications for dealing with violence are discussed in the book, and are of obvious importance for the world.

This 8" by 11" volume contains illustrations of drawings by two extremely talented artists who were among the Fort Marion prisoners from 1875-1878; Making Medicine, a 33 year old Cheyenne and Zotom, a 24 year old Kiowa. The drawings are a full page size and the colors are beautiful and intense. The drawings combined with the commentary by Joe and George Horse Capture provide wonderful insights into the history of these two native nations as well as a better understanding of the Indians' experiences at Fort Marion. It also provides further awareness of the factors that motivated Col. Pratt to establish the Indian school at Carlisle.

A true to life extravaganza. Part one of the story of the "renegade" Simon Girty is just dying to be made into a movie. The story itself is gripping. A tale of a boy driven from location to location by circumstances around him. Captured by the indians and raised for years with them we see him as he crosses the paths of names that live in history. And ALL OF IT TRUE. The illustrations are masterful, accurate and just a pleasure. Tim Truman has made a masterpiece in two acts. Don't let the graphic novel format fool you this is history and art and storytelling all in one stroke! Buy it somewhere anywhere!

I own several copies of this out-of-print book and have enjoyed reading it. I still re-read it from time-to-time. Ms. Maxwell died a few months ago, but her work lives on in the pages of this enchanting book. She had many adventures while looking for medicinal plants. One of these adventures included meeting el tigre--the jaguar! I am lucky to have been included among her friends. She was a woman ahead of her time, and is still remembered fondly by many people in the Amazon jungle.