Hugh Brody's The Other Side of Eden showed what hunter-gatherer societies can teach us today

  • Written by: Michael Adams, Honorary Principal Fellow, Human Geography, University of Wollongong
Hugh Brody's The Other Side of Eden showed what hunter-gatherer societies can teach us todayInuit hunters:Kevin Frayer/AP

Many years before I encountered Hugh Brody’s writing, I read Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book (1894). This was the first book I remember that significantly influenced my life. I read it many times, and still regularly re-read Kipling. The Jungle Book is a colonial version of the “wild child”...

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