Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
JANUARY 12, 2009 MONDAY AT 3PM CT

 
 
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: behind that sensationalized title is a truly original account of Amazonia written by a man, Daniel Everett, who went there as a Christian missionary expecting to convert the Pirahas, a tribe in Brazil, and was instead converted by them.

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  • Daniel Everett, author of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
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