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A review by audreybethc
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art by Carl Hoffman
adventurous
challenging
dark
medium-paced
2.0
The beginning of this book is a complete turn off. I almost gave up, but continued because it was a bookclub selection. It ended up being ok. In general I don’t find stories about billionaires putting themselves in harms way and then being harmed interesting. I think stealing art from people only to turn around and make millions of dollars off of it, giving the actual artists no credit, and in turn none of the profit, is disgusting. I don’t really care about what happened to Michael. The only redeeming parts of the book were when the author tried to genuinely understand the Asmat culture. I would have greatly preferred a book about that unrelated to the Rockefeller incident.