Wayfarers of the Thai Forest by Frederic V. Grunfeld

Wayfarers of the Thai Forest

The Akha

by Frederic V. Grunfeld

Photographs by Michael Freeman

Time-Life Books, 1982, [First Edition], ISBN 705407039, colour photographs throughout, photographic endpapers, large hardcover with photographic boards

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, a little chipping and marking to front cover, crease to front (see photographs)

“Scattered through the forested mountains of eastern Asia dwells a rice-farming people who strive to follow the ways of their ancestors and live in harmony with nature.  The Akha, more than half a million strong, have no books, no social organization above village level, not even the comfort of geographical unity; spreading over southern China, Burma, Laos and Thailand, they have always lived among more powerfully organised peoples of other cultures.  Yet somehow, they have retained an invincible belief that their traditional life is the right way to live.”