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Lost Among the Baining: Adventure, Marriage, and Other Fieldwork (Volume 1)
by Gail Pool
Why Read This?The one-sentence sell. What do you get for showing up to this book, even when it's hard?
You'll gain a profound understanding of how extreme cultural immersion can reshape personal identity and relationships.
Synopsis
Lost Among the Baining: Adventure, Marriage, and Other Fieldwork looks back with wry humor on two life-changing journeys. The first, a field trip the author took with her husband to live with the Baining people of Papua New Guinea, was a fiasco that haunted the couple for years. The second, their redemptive return to the Baining forty years on, gave their story a whole new ending. Lost Among the Baining is a memoir, a travel book, and a love story. Reviewers have called it "provocative," "inspiring," "compulsively readable," and "laugh-out-loud funny."
At a Glance
4.14 ★ GoodreadsMoodWhat you felt reading this. Swoony? Gutted? Deliciously unhinged? The emotional fingerprint.
Book Details
Goodreads RatingThe crowd's verdict. Take it with salt, though. Some masterpieces are polarizing.
4.14 ★
Page CountHow long the commitment is.
294 pages
PublishedWhen this hit shelves. Helpful for tracking vibes by era.
2015
Primary GenreWhat type of book this is. Romance? Fantasy? A 400-page therapy session disguised as a thriller?
Non-fiction
POVWhose head are you in? First person = deep in the feels. Third = watching from above. Dual = emotional whiplash (affectionate).
First Person
AudiobookCan you experience this book while driving? Washing dishes? Working out while emotionally destroyed? Check here.
AvailableCan you experience this book while driving? Washing dishes? Working out while emotionally destroyed? Check here.
No
FormatHow fancy is the audio? Standard = one narrator. Full cast = theater kids went off. GraphicAudio = a MoViE iN yOuR mInD.
Standard
Narrator Count
Single
Mood & Vibe
MoodWhat you felt reading this. Swoony? Gutted? Deliciously unhinged? The emotional fingerprint.
⚠️ Content WarningsThis stuff might hit different. No shame in needing to know what's coming. (0)
No content warnings flagged for this book.
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