New Guinea

  • New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History
    By Clive Moore

    Schieffelin and Crittenden 1991 . s . ... Coulter claimed to have met James Selwin , ex - supercargo and part owner of the brig Thomas from Bristol at Willaumez Peninsula , New Britain in 1835. Selwin is supposed to have arrived there ...

  • New Guinea: People, Colour, Ritual
    By Andrew Strathern

    New Guinea: People, Colour, Ritual

  • New Guinea: Nature and Culture of Earth's Grandest Island
    By Bruce M. Beehler, Tim Laman

    Thus did the ornithologist A. B. Meyer in 1894 name a gorgeous black-and-white bird of paradise from New Guinea Parotia carolae in the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Thereby, Meyer immortalized Queen Carola of Saxony and ...

  • New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History
    By Clive Moore

    80. Ward 1972; Munro 1973; 1879–1880 Annual Report, Police Magistrate, Thursday Island, QVP 1880, vol. 2: 1158; Pitcairn 1891, 273–274. See also Sumner 1981. 81. Jack-Hinton 1969, 342. 82. Barrett 1948, 101–110; Fraser 1853. 83.

  • New Guinea: Nature and Culture of Earth's Grandest Island
    By Bruce M. Beehler

    An enthralling exploration of the biologically richest island on Earth, featuring more than 200 spectacular color images by award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim Laman In this beautiful book, Bruce Beehler, a renowned author ...

  • New Guinea: The Allied Jungle Campaign in World War II
    By Dr. Jon Diamond

    Visual history of the Allied battles for New Guinea during 1942-44.