This Is Big Picture Book or travel to the last

or travel to the last in a string of ever-more-isolated river towns in the jungles of Bolivia

the only person who could take them in

hit the dance floor with the birds of paradise in New Guinea

Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs

This Is Big Picture Book or travel to the lastMarisa Meltzer began her first diet at the age of five. Growing up an indoors loving child in Northern California, she learned from an early age that weight was the one part of her life she could neither change nor even really understand. Fast forward nearly four decades. Marisa, also a contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, comes across an obituary for Jean Nidetch, the Queens, New York housewife who founded Weight Watchers in 1963.