A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea

“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.”
—The Wall Street Journal

“If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.”
—The Washington Post

One of Time’s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer * One of National Geographic’s Best Travel Books of Summer

As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the...