In 1932 a young englishman Andrew Бэнксон conducts lonely life on the river Сепик in one of tribes of New Guinea, trying to describe and understand bases of life of people so not look like his own fellow tribesmen from the Western world. He makes first advances in anthropology, considering itself an unlucky person it is hardly fated that to bring in a serious contribution to new science. Once he meets the colleagues, Нелл and hair Dryer, domestic pair, they are a nomad from one wild tribe in other, collecting information. Unlike Бэнксона, they obtained already considerable. A hair dryer is clever, energetic and full adventurous ideas. His wife Нелл is the real star of anthropology, author of the sensational scientific best seller. A few months of Бэнксон, Нелл and hair Dryer, work together, they are covered by the real research carbon-monoxide fumes that once will be replaced by carbon-monoxide fumes love, and they will appear the constrained strange relations in that love, jealousy, competition, ambition, envy and hazardous activity, was mixed. Only representatives of western civilization are in stuffy jungles, they try to grasp an incomprehensible, mysterious culture, not in forces understand itself.Book history of famous anthropologist Margaret Мид underlay, but in the novel of Lily of Кинг the real facts are closely interlaced with fiction. It is an and portrait of surprizing woman, and thin, hardly ironical novel oh competitions, about a desire, about a love triangle in extreme terms. Dramatic, intellectual and erotica history. Кинг Poured with lightness plays genres: from genuine drama - to the comedy, from serious reflections about stranger cultures and methods of their cognition - to romanticism перетекающей in an erotica.