Honey Hunters of Nepal

by Eric Valli and Diane Summers

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810924080
• ISBN13: 9780810924086
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: ABRAMS
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

End of an Era

A stunning journey into a subculture that was unknown to the outside world until photographer Valli and writer Summers provided this coverage -- the Nepalese Gurung Tribe's twice a year jungle honey hunts. We have here color photographs of remarkable texture and detail, composed and lit with such beauty that it seems improbable that they are journalistic documents snapped on the fly in the field. The book maintains that this honey hunting tradition is now over, that the "men of the forest," hunter/gatherers have now turned to farming. Something that the principal hunter, the elderly Mani Kal, disdains as "mixing dung with the earth." The production from publisher Abrams is typically of high quality -- an oversized (tall!) trade paperback, with a 9 page essay, 85 full page (or double page) photographs, and a catalogue raisonne of sorts -- 3 pages with small b & w reproduction of the color photographs, with explanatory captions. There is also a Thames & Hudson black and white edition with the same title -- you want the Abrams.