Microphone in the Mud

"Microphone in the Mud is a true adventure story of the eleven months that a 25 year old woman spends in the jungles of the Philippines. When she arrives in Manila, Laura is a graduate student embarking on a journey to document a language spoken by 1500 hunter-gatherers. She has been told about the possible dangers in the Philippines, but the people she meets are friendly and helpful, so she thinks that the warnings are exaggerated. She records her humorous views of the country and the people as she travels to the small town of Santa Ana, locates a boarding house, and searches fro the right Agta language informant. Laura soon finds one and begins to work with him at his camp in the jungle, and the project is going remarkably well until she meets an ominous man who calls himself a Treasure Hunter."--Cover.