Peru · Travel memoir
Keep the River on Your Right
In 1955, armed with a penknife and the instructions “Keep the river on your right,” the Brooklyn-born painter Tobias Schneebaum set off into the trackless jungles of Peru in search of a tribe of cannibals. For years presumed dead and forgoing all contact with civilization, he lived as a brother with the Akaramas –– shaving and painting his body, hunting with Stone Age weapons, sleeping in the warmth of the body-pile.