The book that changed me: Hugh Brody's The Other Side of Eden showed what hunter-gatherer societies can teach us today
- Written by Michael Adams, Honorary Principal Fellow, Human Geography, University of Wollongong

Many years before I encountered Hugh Brody’s writing, I read Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book (1894). This was the first book I remember that significantly influenced my life. I read it many times, and still regularly re-read Kipling. The Jungle Book is a colonial version of the “wild child”...