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The Last Longhouse

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Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 915.983
EAN: 9781413463033
ISBN: 1413463037
Label: Xlibris Corporation
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 426
Publication Date: 2005-01-20
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Studio: Xlibris Corporation


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Summary: A Fine Book
Comment: Writing at its best can make the reader know the truth of the writer's experience, imaginative or factual. It can put the reader, for the duration of the reading and for as long as memory endures, in the writer's place.

Anna Goins' The Last Longhouse puts us in a place where few readers of English have ever been, and where none will be again.

In the late 1970s, Goins, a 62-year-old American woman, recently widowed, pursuing a lifelong dream of exploring the island of Borneo and meeting its native people, boards a riverboat and journeys into a fast-disappearing wilderness. What she finds there is an equatorial paradise whose rainforest, and thus its people themselves, are being despoiled by international lumber companies in their quest for profits. Goins succinctly expresses the not-yet-complete wreckage as "[a] graphic reversal of the theme of Conrad's Heart of Darkness.... [T]he virus endemic to 'civilization' had traveled from the coastal cities of Borneo up the river, to the once untouched jungle, and the Dyak tribes living there." Only in the most remote village she visits, Rukun Damai, does Goins meet a man, the patinggi or village headman, who has quietly determined to resist the lumber companies' incursions and their attendant destruction of the old ways and values.

Although this book, in the end, chronicles a tragedy, it is not a tragic book. For as well as devastation Goins finds humor, hope, friendship, beauty, and great courage. She also, unexpectedly, finds love, and a new measure of self-knowledge and fulfillment. She calls the book, in fact, the "coming-of-age" narrative of a woman in her seventh decade.

I recommend The Last Longhouse as strongly as possible. This is a book that reminds us what our world is losing and has lost. It deserves to be widely read.
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Summary: What a trip to Borneo!
Comment: This is an amazing story of a 62 yr old woman who travels to Borneo to live among the headhunters. Ms Goins writes a most interesting true story of her trip up the Mahakam river to visit the Dyaks. The book is very well written and a page turner! One can tell that Ms. Goins is also an artist as she uses few brushstrokes to vividly describe a scene. I feel like I have shared her adventure including the mud, the raging river, the bugs, the beauty of children, the graceful dancers, the rice dishes, the honor and strength of their leader, the kind and not-so kind people. There are a number of good photos of the Dyaks. One learns of the beauty and sadness of their culture. I highly recommend this book as one of the great adventures and also to gain insight into the disappearance of native peoples. This is a facinating story and I've already given several copies as gifts to friends. You won't be disappointed with this one

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