Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This is a challenging, important and highly readable book, which brings alive the human voices behind a major environmental tragedy. It will take children on a fascinating journey to meet some of the peoples who live in the world's disappearing rain forests. Readers will share their traditional stories, absorbing many new ideas about the natural world, their fellow human beings - and even about themselves. The book also contains a wealth of factual information about the original forest peoples' ways of life.
Table of Contents
About this book; THE FOREST PEOPLES OF SOUTH AMERICA; Jaguar-Man; Gifts from the River; Bumblebee Spat; Us and You; The Old Sun; The Magic Canoe; THE FOREST PEOPLES OF AFRICA; Fire and the Forest Lord; The Most Beautiful Song in the Forest; The Company of Chimpanzees; The Making of the Palm Trees; What a Terrible Life in the Forest!; THE FOREST PEOPLES OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA; The Forest is His; The Superman of Sarawak; Never Laugh at Animals; Pig Power, Python Power; The Women's Revenge; Stolen Goods; Sources