Discovery of the Tasaday: A Photo Novel: The Stone Age Meets The Space Age in the Philippine Rain Forest

This is the extraordinary story of the Tasaday, the gentle Stone Age people in a Philippine rain forest who have fascinated millions of persons around the world. Photographs join with words to recreate the epic adventures of a people who had no idea of a world before them.

Photographers join with words to recreate the epic adventures of a people who had no weapons or words for war, no idea of a world beyond their forest, and who walked less than 20 miles and traveled through 50,000 years of technological time to discover and be discovered by the modern world.

Here, as a photographic novel, is an account of how the Tasaday got into the forest centuries ago, why they came out in 1971, and what has happened to them since. Central to the narrative is a lonely Tasaday bachelor and the girl he marries from the outside world.

Published in 1981 by Vera-Reyes

263 pages / Hardcover