How to Cook a Tapir: A Memoir of Belize

by Joan Fry

Book Overview

In 1962 Joan Fry was a college sophomore recently married to a dashing anthropologist. Naively consenting to a year-long "working honeymoon" in British Honduras (now Belize), she soon found herself living in a remote Kekchi village deep in the rainforest. Because Fry had no cooking or housekeeping experience, the romance of living in a hut and learning to cook on a makeshift stove quickly faded. Guided by the village women and their children, this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803243618
• ISBN13: 9780803243613
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"