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

by Joan T. Mark and Joan Mark

Book Overview

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"