Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
by Daniel L. Everett
Hardcover: Nov 2008
Paperback: Nov 2009
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Hands of My Father
: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
by Myron Uhlberg
Hardcover: Feb 2009
By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlbergs memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parentsand his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.
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