The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest
- ISBN-10
- 0879236043
- ISBN-13
- 9780879236045
- Category
- Social Science / General
- Pages
- 484
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- D.R. Godine
- Author
- John Nance
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