On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr. Read an excerpt from The Last Wild Men of Borneo The men illustrate two sides of the same coin, Hoffman says: how western tropes about tribal peoples shape the way the developed world deals with them.Ĭarl Hoffman is the author of the New York Times bestseller Savage Harvest, the story of The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961. He is a former contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler and Wired and has traveled on assignment to eighty countries. Palmieri became one of the world’s most successful tribal-art field collectors, supplying sacred works to prestigious museums and wealthy private collectors. Manser attained world renown fighting against the logging of the primeval forests of Borneo, the home of the Penang tribes. He follows the stories of Swiss adventurer Bruno Manser and American Michael Palmieri. Had he shed civilization-or been murdered? Lured by these mysteries, New York Times bestselling author Carl Hoffman journeyed to find the truth.
Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary “Wild Men of Borneo.” One found riches: did he help or did he exploit the tribespeople he traded with? The other vanished forever into an endless jungle.
Then we talk with Jane Goodall’s biographer Dale Peterson about his new book, The Ghosts of Gombe: A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness. Carl Hoffman talks about his book The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure.
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