Lost Among the Baining: Adventure, Marriage, and Other Fieldwork

In the late sixties, Gail Pool and her husband set off to live with the Baining, an isolated people in Papua New Guinea. He was a graduate student in anthropology; she was an aspiring writer. Many people warned them against this trip, pointing to the stresses of the rugged mountain terrain, their own isolation, and the mystery of the Baining, about whom little was known. But just two years out of ...