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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814512703321

Autore

Leahy Michael J. <1901-1979.>

Titolo

Explorations into highland New Guinea, 1930-1935 / / Michael J. Leahy; edited by Douglas E. Jones; foreword by Jane C. Goodale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1991

ISBN

0-8173-8315-8

0-585-11655-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

JonesDouglas E

Disciplina

305.8

305.8/009953

305.8009953

Soggetti

Ethnology - Papua New Guinea

First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners - Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Description and travel

Papua New Guinea Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword by Jane C. Goodale; Editor's Preface; Introduction; The Year 1930; The Year 1931; The Year 1932; The Year 1933; The Year 1934; The Year 1935; Conclusions; Editor's Afterword; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the 1920's and 1930's there were adventures to be lived and fortunes to be made by strong young men in the outback of Australia and the gold fields of New Guinea.  This is the diary of five years spent in hot pursuit-not of honor and glory, but of excitement and riches-by one such adventurer, Michael ""Mick"" Leahy, his brothers Jim and Pat, and friends Mick Dwyer and Jim Taylor.  Leahy and his associates explored the unknown interior of New Guinea, seeking gold and making contact for the first time with the aborigines of the interior mountains and valleys.