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Into the Crocodile Nest: A Journey Inside New Guinea
Into the Crocodile Nest: A Journey Inside New Guinea

 enlarge 		Author: Benedict Allen
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 2 reviews
Sales Rank: 108349

Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.7

ISBN: 0571206220
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780571206223
ASIN: 0571206220

Publication Date: February 4, 2002
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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars his tv shows are better   July 31, 2006
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I am a huge fan of Benedict Allens - seems to me he has a lot in common with Wilfred Thesinger without the misogynist bent. But this book disappointed me as I found it harder work than I expected and less insightful than the tv of his that I have seen -the skeleton coast and the trip around Mongolia. Nonetheless I found it an extraordinary tale and well told - just a bit short on how he was effected by the experience.




5 out of 5 stars Thoughtful exploration.   June 2, 2005
 5 out of 6 found this review helpful

Benedict Allen is one of the few people in travel circles who I feel can legitimately be called an explorer. Unconcerned with planting flags and the pith-helmet legacy he choses instead to immerse himself in a culture and learn about it as best as he can through their eyes -no camera crews no mobile phones.
This journey in particular is possibly the deepest he has gone in such a respect; joining the Niaowra people in Papua New Guinea when he was then 24 to participate in the last initiation ceremony to become 'a man as strong as a crocodile'. This entailed 6 weeks of daily beatings and being cut with bamboo to create the crocodile skin like scarification marks that he still bears up and down his body to this day.
But it's not merely a 'one man's journey' story it's also the last record of a culture experiencing extinction at that hands of the encroaching western religions.
Sensitively written this is at all times an inspirational, absorbing and thought-provoking read.



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