Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle

by Marc; de Civrieux and Jean-Marc de Civrieux

Book Overview

Originally published in Spanish in 1970, Watunna is the epic history and creation stories of the Makiritare, or Yekuana, people living along the northern bank of the Upper Orinoco River of Venezuela, a region of mountains and virgin forest virtually unexplored even to the present. The first English edition of this book was published in 1980 to rave reviews. This edition contains a new foreword by David Guss, as well as Mediata, a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292715897
• ISBN13: 9780292715899
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"