She appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, was interviewed by Barbara Walters, and met with Margaret Mead and many of the intellectual elite of the day - some of whom questioned what a young woman without a college degree could possibly have to say. Upon her return to New York and Rome, she gained considerable attention for her adventures.
Liedloff made five expeditions to Venezuela - ostensibly to hunt for diamonds - spending more than two and half years among aboriginal tribes deep in the rainforest. Liedloff crossed paths with the two Italians who would open the door to the South American jungle and her destiny as an explorer. In the high-society world at that time, the big news was the “party of the century.” Crowned heads of state, movie stars, dignitaries, writer, artists and everybody who was anybody had been invited to Palazzo Labia for a masquerade ball hosted by the flamboyant millionaire Carlos de Beistegui. With letters of introduction from her New York elite connections, Jean traveled to Florence, Germany, and the French Riviera. She learned French, Italian and Spanish (without formal language studies) and began taking occasional assignments as a translator. Once there, she began working for Conde Naste as a model for Paris Vogue. Liedloff left the states and traveled to Europe. When her beloved grandmother, Rosebel Shiff, passed away in 1951, Ms. She grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and graduated from Drew Seminary for Young Women before attending Cornell University for one year. Liedloff was born on November 26th, 1926, in New York City. She was 84 and lived with her four-legged companion - an Abyssinian cat named Tulip. Jean Liedloff, author of The Continuum Concept, died peacefully in the pre-dawn hours on her houseboat in Sausalito (California) last Tuesday (March 15th, 2011). Geralyn also wrote Jean’s obituary, shown below as it appeared in Jean’s local newspaper… Liedloff Took Us Back to the Stone Age She passed away in 2011, and her dramatic life story has been documented in a biography entitled Jungle Jean, written in vivid detail by Jean’s friend and confidante, Geralyn Gendreau. Jean Liedloff’s fascination with wild nature led to her adventures in the Amazon rainforest, her discovery of the continuum concept, and her book’s profound influence on parenting in modern societies. There was something primal, something right about it.” “As a child I was attracted to everything that had to do with jungles.
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