Down Among The Wild Men
By JOHN GREENWAY
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"Down Among The Wild Men" is a non-fiction "Gulliver's Travels"; a traveler's tale into a very real twilight world where an ancient society operates by rules that don't have anything to do with the white man's preconceptions. Greenway tackles the narrative like the rough-and-tumble scholar he is.
The book doesn't end in Australia but goes on (in the epilogue) to describe Greenway's teaching at the University of Colorado. At one point, he carried a tire iron into a confrontation with college radicals who tried to disrupt his class. From liberal professor to reserve policeman and volunteer deputy sheriff, Greenway did it all. This remarkable tale brings to life decades of experience, filtered through a first-class mind and seasoned with an acerbic wit. Critics and fellow academics didn't know what to make of DATWM when it was published in 1972. Like cows in a pasture watching a jet airliner pass overhead, all they comprehended was something big and fast.
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| At Keibara Flint Mine, south Australia |
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| Amazon Books | Amazon also | "Folklore of the Great West" |
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Greenway's scathing review of reviewers who wrote about the Australian film "Walkabout"
Biographical information about Dr. John Greenway from the dust jacket of DATWM An obituary written by Tristram Potter Coffin After you've read Dr. Greenway's article on plagiarism, take a look at this next link Also, Manfred Helfert says a folk music recording by Dr. Greenway was the inspiration for a Bob Dylan song. |