The People in the Trees
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Word Count
124,000 words, Guess
Page Count
496 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivepeopleintrees0000yana
- ISBN-100345803310
- ISBN-139780345803313
- Library of Congress Control Number2012034034
- Better World Books9780345803313
and 2 more
- Open LibraryOL26758040M
- Goodreads35396824
Classifications
- LCCPS3625.A674 P46 2014
Description
In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu'ivu in search of a rumored lost tribe. They succeed, finding not only that tribe but also a group of forest dwellers they dub "The Dreamers," who turn out to be fantastically long-lived but progressively more senile. Perina suspects the source of their longevity is a hard-to-find turtle; unable to resist the possibility of eternal life, he kills one and smuggles some meat back to the States. He scientifically proves his thesis, earning worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize, but he soon discovers that its miraculous property comes at a terrible price. As things quickly spiral out of his control, his own demons take hold, with devastating personal consequences. (Fiction, Magic Realism)
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