"A magical masterpiece."-Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression."

The first comprehensive biography of 'the father of modern anthropology''An intellectual biography that briskly and brilliantly assesses the great, original, creative ideas and their origins in the context of Lévi-Strauss's life from the 1930s to the 1960s in Brazil, New York and Paris' The Times, Biographies of the Year'Lays out the life with clarity, efficiency, readability and occasionally dissent ... A superbly thrillin...