JENS BJERRE: THE LAST CANNIBALS

 

I am back on the track of forgotten travel books with Jens Bjerre’s Last Cannibals. It was an easy and highly enjoyable read.
To give you a taste of it, here is a few things you can learn from the book:

- how native Australians deal with birth control
- why you must never hurry
- how could soldiers drown in the Sahara
- whether there are camels in Australia
- why you should never force people living in houses on water ashore
- how girls in New Guinea solved the etiquette problem of covering their breast before white ladies
- how do cannibals eat a road
- what are the roots of tribal pyromania
- why you should never ever wake a sleeping kukukuku
- what are the rules of dating in the jungle
- which is the most idyllic tropical island of the South Seas
- who was the ‘Flying bishop’

Moreover, here are the new entries in our list of groovy names:
- Hanuabada (village built on water in New Guinea)
- Kukukuku (tribe)
- Kau-kau (potato)
- Momakova (chief of a kukukuku village)
- Jagagaga (chatty old warrior)
- Morombo (tribe)
- Tumbulun (magic flute to scare women)
- Gorogoba (river)
- Morofonu (God)