“Warmly accommodating a wide variety of island customs and more, Krieger grounds every fact in vital human experience. He explores two Melanesian and two Polynesian countries where islanders still live according to old traditions. Krieger is the only living person to interview members of different cannibal tribes and to discuss with them the subject of cannibalism. He tells of tribes whose name in translation means ‘I will kill you,’ and of a powerful ex-minister whose tyrannical control of a remote island evokes images from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.”

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Hardback: 228 pages
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Collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with remote spots in the Hindu, Buddhist or Muslim worlds.

Publisher: Ecco
Paperback: 192 pages
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“One may judge Isabelle as the neurotic she undoubtedly was, the victim of a disastrous heredity and a criminal upbringing. One may see in her the adventuress, eager for sensation and ready to do anything that would bring in the small sums of money necessary to continue her chosen existence. There is the artist whose sensibility responded so immediately and completely to beauty; there is the exalted mystic who longed to die in the cause of Islam. But there is also the warm human being who could pardon every offense, who thought ill of no one, who loved the humblest and most disinherited of humanity and hated only that which was false and pretentious… It is useless to look for a logical thread on which to hang so chaotic an existence… Isabelle’s life was based on a fantastic dream of liberty. At least she had the courage to live that dream to the full, accepting the misery and degradation that its realization entailed, and proudly accepting death.”

Publisher: Ecco
Paperback: 229 pages
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