Race to the Snow: Photography and the Exploration of ...
 Interesting: This book contains short accounts of expeditions to the western highlands of West Papua in the early 20th century, accompanied by 50 black and white photographs and a few maps. The photos are perhaps the major interest. Binding: Paperback [... more]
$19.95
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Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918
Author: Michael W. Young Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 779.999541 EAN: 9780226876504 ISBN: 0226876500 Number Of Pages: 316 Publication Date: 1998-02-15 [... more]
$50.00
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Cousteau's Papua New Guinea Journey
"Do" judge a book by it's cover: I love Cousteau and family but am only familiar with the videos. Give me something to look at! Thanks Something of a disappointment.: It is fair to say that if your father was a successful and famous General [... more]
$49.50
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Mission Possible: The Wonderful Story of God and a ...
THE NITTY GRITTY OF THE MISSION FIELD: This was a life changing book for me. I have been a Christian for a long time but only recently became interested in missionaries. This book describes so beautifully what happens when an ordinary person is called by [... more]
$9.99
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The Siege of Rabaul
Good Read: The book is an interesting read. I finished it within 2 hours. Although the topic is heroic (and sometimes sad), i especially found the antics of one Japanese pilot in particular, Masajiro Kawato, funny. The author seems to share this same [... more]
$16.95
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MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign ...
A seminal book about a little-known WWII campaign: A seminal book about a WWII campaign that achieved nothing of strategic significance except to boost Gen. MacArthur's personal standing as well as diverting US military forces from a direct thrust at [... more]
$35.00
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Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea
Dispela buk em i tok tru: After almost a century of modern-style research, the world is not exactly short of ethnographies. You can find works on everybody from Indiana town dwellers to Sri Lankan fishermen. Papua New Guinea, as an area where a wide [... more]
$27.00
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New Guinea and the Marianas: March 1944-August 1944 ...
Task Force 58 Deals the Japanese Navy a Fatal Blow: This book keeps up the tradition of other books in this fine series. This volume describes the action which took place in and around the Marianas Islands in the summer of 1944. The islands of Saipan, [... more]
$12.99
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific
A classic: This is a real classic in the history of anthropology, published in 1922, and unlike another classic from the same decade, Coming of Age in Samoa, it has worn well, too. This is where modern ethnography begins. Malinowski tells us how to do [... more]
$21.95
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Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song ...
Author: Steven Feld Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 306.09953 EAN: 9780812212990 Edition: Second Edition ISBN: 0812212991 Number Of Pages: 312 Publication Date: 1990-01-01 [... more]
$22.50
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Birds of New Guinea
An Excellent Guide to a Very Special Region: Though quite old, this remains a good (and the only!) guide to the birds of New Guinea. Unfortunately its coverage doesn't extend to the Bismarck Archipelago, but for the New Guinea mainland and the West [... more]
$60.00
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Angels Twenty: A Young American Flier a Long Way from Home
Engaging, thoughtful narrative from an Anti-Hero perspective: Back in 1977, Edwards Park published the sparkling "Nanette", a fictionalized account of his days as a neophyte P-39 pilot in New Guinea. "Angels Twenty" could almost be [... more]
$22.95
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