Savages
By: Joe Kane
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780679740193
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Huao Indians; Human ecology; Land tenure
Description: Booknews:  An American journalist recounts the story of the struggle for autonomy by the Huaorani, a nation of 1,300 nomadic Amazonian Indians, whose oil-rich territory has been besieged by hell-bent oil companies, missionaries, unscrupulous bureaucrats, and environmentalists, all claiming to represent the Huaorani's best interests. Eight pages of color photos.
Notes: "Portions of this book were originally published in The New Yorker in slightly different form as 'Amazon showdown: a Stone Age tribe fights American oil' (9/27/93) and 'an Amazon Indian in D.C.'s jungle' (5/2/94)"--T.p. verso.

"Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1995."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-274).
Table of contents: title: Pronunciation guide to some Huaorani names; title: Prologue; title: 1:  East; title: 2:  West; title: 3:  Among the cannibals; title: Epilogue to the vintage edition; title: Author's note; title: Acknowledgments; title: Biblography.