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Vendeur : MW Books, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, 317p : ill ; map, ports ; 24cm. Notes; Subtitle on cover: New Guinea's highlanders encounter the outside world. Bibliography: p. [313]-316. Contents; 1. What is beyond? -- 2. Lifting the veil -- 3. Skymen and the living dead -- 4. First casualties -- 5. The Wahgi -- 6. Men of all things -- 7. Moka -- 8. Bridewealth -- 9. Ewunga Creek -- 10. The outside world -- 11. Doi -- 12. The white man's burden -- 13. Why had they come? -- 14. Fine marriage potential -- 15. Church and state -- 16. End of Eden -- 17. Independence. Subjects; Leahy, Michael P. T. 1934-2007. Leahy, Michael. Ethnology Papua New Guinea. First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners Papua New Guinea. First contact (Anthropology) Papua New Guinea. First contact (Anthropology). First contact with Occidental civilization. Primitive societies. 1 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 433292
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Vendeur : MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlande
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, 317p : ill ; map, ports ; 24cm. Notes; Subtitle on cover: New Guinea's highlanders encounter the outside world. Bibliography: p. [313]-316. Contents; 1. What is beyond? -- 2. Lifting the veil -- 3. Skymen and the living dead -- 4. First casualties -- 5. The Wahgi -- 6. Men of all things -- 7. Moka -- 8. Bridewealth -- 9. Ewunga Creek -- 10. The outside world -- 11. Doi -- 12. The white man's burden -- 13. Why had they come? -- 14. Fine marriage potential -- 15. Church and state -- 16. End of Eden -- 17. Independence. Subjects; Leahy, Michael P. T. 1934-2007. Leahy, Michael. Ethnology Papua New Guinea. First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners Papua New Guinea. First contact (Anthropology) Papua New Guinea. First contact (Anthropology). First contact with Occidental civilization. Primitive societies. 1 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 433292
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Vendeur : BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Stated first edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. N° de réf. du vendeur 0670801674-7-1-13
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Vendeur : Book Grocer, Tullamarine, VIC, Australie
Hardback. Bob Connolly, Penguin Books Ltd. The book titled First Contact: New Guinea's Highlanders Encounter the Outside World by the author Bob Connolly. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title. Hardback. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780670801671-SECONDHAND
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Vendeur : Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, Royaume-Uni
Etat : Very Good. Light scuffs & scratches to the jacket. Faint marks to the edges of the textblock & hardcover. Content is in very good, clean condition. N° de réf. du vendeur 18460-20-01-2026-LMC
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Vendeur : Ripponlea Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australie
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. ix+317pp., Pictorial full colour illustrated dustjacket with hint of rubbing to lower spine-end of jacket- covered in removable protective clear plastic, brown papered boards with blue text to white cloth spine, ack., dbl. page map, b/w plts. & text, full & dbl. page b/w photos, notes on sources, notes, bibliog. Beginning in 1930, a series of expeditions led by the Australian Michael Leahy went looking for gold in the unexplored highlands of New Guinea and found instead an intact civilization of nearly one million people who who had no previous contact with the outside world. Size: Large Octavo. Book. N° de réf. du vendeur 003859
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Vendeur : Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books, CYGNET, TAS, Australie
1st edition. XIV,3), 316, (1) PP with 2 maps and 126 b/w photos. Hard covers, cloth spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 18. New Guinea Highlanders encounter the outside world. N° de réf. du vendeur 76354
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Vendeur : Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australie
Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First UK Edition. xi, 316pp, bibliography, notes, bw ills, map. Cloth backed boards in jacket. Some fading to spine, slight foxing to endpapers. First contact between Europeans and the Highlanders of Papua New Guinea in the 1930s with more than 100 photographs from the archive of Michael Leahy. Size: Small 4to. N° de réf. du vendeur 054333
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Vendeur : Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australie
Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First US Edition. xi, 316pp, bibliography, notes, bw ills, map. Cloth backed boards in jacket. Very slight fading to spine, light edge wear to jacket. First contact between Europeans and the Highlanders of Papua New Guinea in the 1930s with more than 100 photographs from the archive of Michael Leahy. Size: Small 4to. N° de réf. du vendeur 054454
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Vendeur : A Small Bookshop, ELMHURST, VIC, Australie
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. DJ: Minor shelf wear top edge; some minor fading to spine. B&W photographs throughout. 24 x 19. 317 pp. N° de réf. du vendeur 004178
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