Quotation

The Other Side of Eden

Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the World
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"To move around with safety, to hunt with success, to make the land's resources available and nourishing, the hunter works with a mass of details and the names of many, many places. Nothing could be better, for there could be no alternative: to know this particular territory is to prosper; neither the land nor the knowledge of the land can be replaced. A territory is made perfect by knowledge. Inugu was revealing his profound conviction that this was his only imaginable home." (35)