The Truth Hurts

"I remember the time we visited this tribal area, five days by boat from Guayaramerín, Bolivia, which we were told was cannibalistic," she recalled. "We spent the night outside, in two hammocks. That night, when I heard a noise near us, I woke up, gasping, 'Werner, it's them!' He sleepily replied, 'When they come, we won't hear them.' He went straight back to sleep. I didn't."

—Lena Herzog, in the April 24, 2006 issue of The New Yorker