Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years deep in the South American jungle with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and led her to a radically different view of what human nature really is. She offers a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being and shows us practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves.
"Deserves to be read by Western parents, child psychologists, and other social engineers concerned with restoring self-reliance and well-being. There are remarkable insights here."
– The New York Times Book Review
"A book we should all read...to help us become nurturing parents and advocates for our own child within, to understand what we missed, and to restore it."
– Gloria Steinem
"Basic things about human nature that we forget or ignore at our peril."
– Professor Robert Aldrich, M.D., Formerly of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Washington, D.C.
"If I had to choose one book to give parents-to-be, here it is."
– George Leonard
Excerpted from the back cover of the American edition of the book (Perseus).
(Yuan Tung Jen Sheng)
(Ikaron HaRetzef)