Secret Places : My Life in New York and New Guinea
, by Schneebaum, TobiasNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780299169909 | 0299169901
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 5/1/2000
In the swamps of Asmat in West New Guinea, Tobias Schneebaum-traveler, writer, painter, explorer-finds the way of life that suits him best. Secret Places reels readers into a world of storytellers and sorcerers, cannibals and carvers, a place where Schneebaum discovers his soulmates and his own soul. Looking back at a life of wild adventure, Schneebaum seeks in Secret Placesto intertwine the varied strands of his experience, pondering the parallel universes of his experience as a gay Jewish New Yorker and his years among the Asmat. The result illuminates both worlds-as when he juxtaposes the Asmat celebration of the spirits of the dead with a New York City plagued by AIDS and its own sad spirits.