Cryptozoologycal Adventure

 About the book of Lukas Meisel:   Almost every culture in Asia knows the creature by name - as Yeren in China, Chemo in Tibet or as Orang Pendek in Sumatra. For centuries, it has had a firm place in myths and imaginations. Only science does not want to know anything about the "missing link" between humans and animals.

Robert Akeret is determined to change that. At the behest of a cryptozoological society, he sets off on an expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea. At his side: a man from the Bugis ethnic group; at the helm of the boat is someone who calls himself Jonah. And then there is Blum, his Swiss assistant, a man in his mid-twenties with weak nerves but a keen sense of correct manners. Together they embark on a journey into the well-measured unknown. With a hand-welded cage on the bow ...

Lukas Maisel is possibly the "missing link" between Claude Lévi-Strauss and Karl May. His debut novel, "Book of the Dreamed Islands", is a literary adventure, light-handed and intelligent, a captivating combination of cultural history, ethnography and narrative imagination.

BTW, Robert Akeret was a real person. Robert U. Akeret of New York City and Essex, N.Y., passed on peacefully on Nov. 12, 2016. Bob is survived by his four daughters, Kim and husband Tony, Julie and husband John, Liza, and Teal; and his four grandchildren, Molly, Nick, Will, and Sam. He was a successful psychoanalyst and author. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1928, Bob immigrated to the United States with his mother, Emmi Akeret, when he was six years old. Bob received his doctorate from Columbia University and his certificate in psychoanalysis from the William Alanson White Institute, where he trained with Rollo May and Erich Fromm. He wrote five books: "Not by Words Alone" (1972), "Photoanalysis" (1975), "Family Tales, Family Wisdom" (1991), "Tales from a Traveling Couch" (1996)