num_pages: 331
description: The author recounts his 1981 journey to Papua New Guinea to study members of the Fore tribe suffering from Kuru, a disease of the brain, to see if the spread of this affliction is due to a now-outlawed tradition of eating their dead
language: English
title: The Trembling Mountain
titlecomplete: The Trembling Mountain
genres: Biology, Science, Nonfiction, Memoir, Sociology
ratings_count: 59
publisher: Da Capo Press