Jagua eBook: Chapter 3

Chapter Three:
Pascal's Journal

pp. 31-53

Live the day-to-day trip with Pascal as, accompanied by Mr. X, the weirdo, he shops for his Indian hosts, takes an eight-hour canoe ride through dense jungle to the Matsés village, and spends two weeks with the community that will harvest the jagua fruit for the jagua tattoo kits back in the States.

Plus!...

• Visiting with the Matsés
  12 pages of stunning color photographs by Pascal Giacomini.
• Ahhh, Frog Sweat...
  A personal essay by award-winning investigative journalist Peter Gorman, who writes about being introduced by the Matsés to a potent frog poison, which he ingests via his bloodstream. Read all about his harrowing experience and the exciting scientific discoveries it leads to.
• My Life Among the Humans
  A personal essay by David W. Fleck, an American with a Ph.D. in linguistics who gives up life as he knows it to go live in the jungle with the Matsés. He still lives there today, and writes about how he made the decision to stay.

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