Don’t Sleep There Are Snakes
By Daniel Everett
BBC Book of the Week – listen only while it lasts
Daniel Everett lived among the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil, whose remoteness meant that their language was incomprehensible.
He began as a linguist and a missionary, his task to translate the New Testament into their dialect. But his story tells of how, over the years, the Pirahãs changed him more than he could influence them.
See more photos taken of the Pirahã tribe during the project
BBC Book of the Week site
Ms. Wakame
Surprisingly, its hard to find in audiobook format. But I found it here.
Sarah Joyce
Heard Don’t Sleep There Are Snakes on Radio 4, it was brilliant!!! Wanted to by the audiotape for my Father does anyone know where Ican get hold of a copy?
nathan
Yeah, get the audiobook! That’ll be great for the next bout of driving. 🙂
Ms. Wakame
Hey no worries. I know you’re on the train now so cant hear it, but its a really amazing story that I posted because I thought you’d find it super interesting. It ignited all sorts of new wonderful ideas in my mind about how to be happy in life. I definitely want to get the audiobook some time.
Anyhow its only going to be online today, maybe tomorrow before its replaced by this week’s book of the week.
Nathan
God, I’m sick of Christians doing this, destroying cultures by spreading their insane theories all over the world. What if we went and repainted Mona Lisa and the Sistine Chapel to look like cubism because that was the trend of the time. It’s sickening.
I was thinking the other day, “Its wrong to judge all Christians just as it’s wrong to judge someone for being black or gay or whatever.”
Except that every single Christian chose to be just that, and so they’ve willingly bought into a club based on hocus pocus, lies, hate, murder and the raping of our world differences.
Maybe off topic, sorry if I hijacked your comments. 🙁