Customer Reviews

Zen Explorations in Remotest New Guinea: Adventures in the Jungles and Mountains of Irian Jaya

5 star:		(0)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

The author is currently mixin up two different tribes of Papua (Irian Jaya), one time he even quote a story from Borneo. He describes the Dani people as Cannibals and Headhunters, they never have been both. It«s the story of a unprepared man who climbes the highest peak of Papua.He did it, but I would not have been a member of the tourist-group he went with.The whole book is a shame, and the only remote thing in it, is the mind of the author.

I found myself wondering how the author had the nerve to write such an embarrassing book about his own ineptitude and poor planning. Perhaps Zen offers some explanation for him but I sure can't. Like another reviewer, I was glad I wasn't a part of the group with which he was traveling. Don't waste your money on this one.

I whole-heartedly agree with what the above to folks had to say. The author was absolutlely hopeless and self-absorbed.

I never finished this book.
The style is childish, usage of English poor, what little background information is presented was obviously all gathered from the same one travel guide.
So much of that "information" is wrong and even derogatory that the Dani people could sue the author for defaming!
Can you believe that Kipling's Jungle Book is cited in the "bibliography"???
It is true!!! :-))))
No more comment is needed, I believe.

I bought this one because I was planning a trip to New Guinea and wanted to read up on it a bit. Big waste of 15 bucks -- I have to concur with the other reviewers. This is perhaps the only book I've ever read where I found myself taking an active dislike to the author.

A better book about New Guinea (minus the faux-zen ramblings, but with discussions of marsupials) is Throwim Way Leg.