The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology. For three years, Colin Turnbull lived with an isolated group of Pygmies deep in the forest of the African Congo, experiencing their daily life first-hand.He attended their hunting parties and initiation ceremonies, witnessed their music and their rituals, observed their quarrels and love affairs.He documented them as an anthropologist but was accepted among them as a friend. A ground-breaking work in its time, The Forest People made him one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s.It remains a transporting account of an earthly paradise and of a legendary and fascinating people. With a new foreword by Horatio Clare.