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Monckton, Captain C. A. W.

Taming New Guinea

1922

38.54 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Year of publication
1922
Place of printing
New York. Dodd Mead and Company
Author
Monckton, Captain C. A. W.
Keyword
Travel - Pacific & Australia Anthropology
Languages
English

Description

8vo [22 x 15 cm]; x, [ii], 337 pp, frontis (port), 37 illustrations from photos, foldout map, index. original cloth, gilt lettering on spine, very good+ clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author, a colonial officer for many years in New Guinea, writes from his experiences of the people and places, with much on the native peoples. Presented from the Bull Family on the endpaper.

Edizione: first published in london.