{"title":"Carl Hoffman","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-last-wild-men-of-borneo-a-true-story-of-death-and-treasure-paperback","title":"The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA 2019 EDGAR AWARDS NOMINEE (BEST FACT CRIME) - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARDS FINALIST\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary \"Wild Men of Borneo.\" One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization--or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Carl Hoffman journeyed to find the truth, discovering that nothing is as it seems in the world's last Eden, where the lines between sinner and saint blur into one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1984, Swiss traveler Bruno Manser joined an expedition to the Mulu caves on Borneo, the planet's third largest island. There he slipped into the forest interior to make contact with the Penan, an indigenous tribe of peace-loving nomads living among the Dayak people, the fabled \"Headhunters of Borneo.\" Bruno lived for years with the Penan, gaining acceptance as a member of the tribe. However, when commercial logging began devouring the Penan's homeland, Bruno led the tribe against these outside forces, earning him status as an enemy of the state, but also worldwide fame as an environmental hero. He escaped captivity under gunfire twice, but the strain took a psychological toll. Then, in 2000, Bruno disappeared without a trace. Had he become a madman, a hermit, or a martyr?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican Michael Palmieri is, in many ways, Bruno's opposite. Evading the Vietnam War, the Californian wandered the world, finally settling in Bali in the 1970s. From there, he staged expeditions into the Bornean jungle to acquire astonishing art and artifacts from the Dayaks. He would become one of the world's most successful tribal-art field collectors, supplying sacred works to prestigious museums and wealthy private collectors. And yet suspicion shadowed this self-styled buccaneer who made his living extracting the treasure of the Dayak: Was he preserving or exploiting native culture?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Carl Hoffman unravels the deepening riddle of Bruno's disappearance and seeks answers to the questions surrounding both men, it becomes clear saint and sinner are not so easily defined and Michael and Bruno are, in a sense, two parts of one whole: each spent his life in pursuit of the sacred fire of indigenous people. \u003cem\u003eThe Last Wild Men of Borneo \u003c\/em\u003eis the product of Hoffman's extensive travels to the region, guided by Penan through jungle paths traveled by Bruno and by Palmieri himself up rivers to remote villages. Hoffman also draws on exclusive interviews with Manser's family and colleagues, and rare access to his letters and journals. Here is a peerless adventure propelled by the entwined lives of two singular, enigmatic men whose stories reveal both the grandeur and the precarious fate of the wildest place on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary \"Wild Men of Borneo.\" One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization--or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. 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Now, award-winning journalist Carl Hoffman reveals startling new evidence that finally tells the full, astonishing story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRetracing Michael's steps, Hoffman traveled to the jungles of New Guinea, immersing himself in a world of former headhunters and cannibals, secret spirits and customs, and getting to know generations of Asmat. Through exhaustive archival research, he uncovered hundreds of pages of never-before-seen original documents and located witnesses willing to speak publicly for the first time in fifty years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSavage Harvest\u003c\/em\u003e is at once a mesmerizing whodunit and a fascinating portrait of the clash between two civilizations that resulted in the death of one of America's richest and most powerful scions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn November 21, 1961, Michael C. 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