Research Catalog

Title

The shrinking jungle : a novel / Kevin T. Jones.

Author

Jones, Kevin T., 1951-

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2012.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xix, 199 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Guayaki Indians > Fiction
• Indians of South America > Paraguay > Fiction
• Jungles > Fiction
• Life change events > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Novels

Note

• Stories about the lives of some of the last tribal peoples in the deep forests of Paraguay affected by the expansion of modern industrial society.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Genealogy chart -- The characters -- Glossary -- Prologue -- Thunder -- The rage -- Arrows -- Big river -- Shelter -- Bows and honey -- A proposition -- Spirits -- Monkey -- Sores -- Vulture -- Blackbirds -- The mountains -- The red flood -- Strangehorn -- Membo -- Larvae -- Jaguar -- Preparation -- Margay -- Storytelling -- Tapir -- Clubfight -- A new band -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 9781607811961 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1607811960 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012022702

OCLC

795504308

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library