Equatoria

Both travelog and cultural critique, this book chronicles the Prices' 1990 artefact-collecting expedition up the rivers of French Guiana and contains a collection of extracts from writers such as Jonathan Swift, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez and Germaine Greer.

A postmodern romp through the rain forest, Equatoria is both travelog and cultural critique. On the right-hand pages, the Prices chronicle their 1990 artifact-collecting expedition up the rivers of French Guiana, and on the left, stage an accompanying sideshow that enlists the help of Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Alex Haley, James Clifford, Eric Hobsbawm, Germaine Greer and even the noted anthropologist James Goodfellow (who asks for more sex). Also included are quotes from the nurses, doctors, tourists, convicts and countless others who live in the French penal colony turned space center in tropical South America. Charged with acquiring objects for a new museum, the Prices kept a log of their day-to-day adventures and misadventures, constantly confronting their ambivalence about the act of collecting, the very possibility of exhibiting cultures and the future of anthropology