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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
by Daniel L. Everett
One of the most fascinating books I’ve read in a long time. I came to this book after seeing the Mission documentary on Hulu. Daniel Everett is a really amazing person and writer. The book is just filled with incredibly honest stories about Daniel living amongst people he doesn’t understand but is trying to. Some of the stories were thrilling, scary and hilarious, but they were always interwoven into the broader narrative of trying to learn their language. It is an incredible love letter to the scientific method, to observing the world as it is, not how we want it to be. It was deeply moving, and shows how little we really understand about ourselves.