num_pages: 425
description: "A magical masterpiece."—Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression."
language: English
title: Tristes-Tropiques
titlecomplete: Tristes-Tropiques
genres: France, Philosophy, Science, Memoir, Travel, Nonfiction, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Classics
ratings_count: 3537
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Scott Moncrieff Prize
category: John Weightman & Doreen Weightman
publisher: Atheneum