The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies (Revised)

by Joan T. Mark and Joan Mark

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Joan Mark offers an interpretive biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-53), who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a harmonious multiracial community. He modeled his camp on the "dude ranches" of the American West, taking in paying guests while running a medical clinic and occasionally offering legal aid to the local people, and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0803282508

ISBN13:9780803282506

Release Date:December 1998

Publisher:University of Nebraska Press

Length:276 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"

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