Lost Among the Baining: Adventure, Marriage, and Other Fieldwork looks back with wry humor on two life-changing journeys. The first, a field trip the author took with her husband to live with the Baining people of Papua New Guinea, was a fiasco that haunted the couple for years. The second, their redemptive return to the Baining forty years on, gave their story a whole new ending. Lost Among the Baining is a memoir, a travel book, and a love story. Reviewers have called it "provocative," "inspiring," "compulsively readable," and "laugh-out-loud funny."