{"product_id":"in-the-eye-of-the-wild-9781681375854","title":"In the Eye of the Wild","description":"\u003cb\u003eAfter enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East's Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous distinction between animal and human.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Eye of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a terrifying account of the anthropologist Nastassja Martin's nearly fatal run-in with a Kamchatka bear while conducting research in Siberia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs an anthropologist, Martin has made a name for the fullness of her engagement with the peoples she studies. In her dangerous encounter with the bear, however, she faced something else altogether: the animal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeft severely mutilated, she undergoes multiple operations in a provincial Russian hospital, whose ghastly chief surgeon sports a mouthful of gold teeth and presides over a harem of young nurses. Back in France, she is put through new operations, meant to fix the work done in Russia, from which she emerges even more damaged. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe comes to the conclusion that she must return to Kamchatka. She must discover what it means to have become, as the Evens people call it, a \u003ci\u003emiedka\u003c\/i\u003e, a person who is not only human but beast. That is the only way for her to continue her work as an anthropologist and to reconstitute herself as person.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681375854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nastassja Martin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41261993590965,"sku":"9781681375854","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d9d92f39-7928-4905-a9da-3087fceda740.jpg?v=1634653705","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/in-the-eye-of-the-wild-9781681375854","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}