cover image The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest

The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest

John J. Nance. David R. Godine Publisher, $14.95 (484pp) ISBN 978-0-87923-604-5

``It is hard to imagine that another book will appear for a long time so poignant and full of wonders as Nance's full-bodied story of the discovery of a tiny handful of Stone Age people, the Tasaday, in the forests of Mindanao in 1971. . . . One gets to know each member of the childlike `forest family,' '' praised PW . Photos. (September)