Plumes And Arrows: Inside New Guinea
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Few lands have captured the imagination of the outside world quite like New Guinea — a vast, emerald island shrouded in mist, mystery, and millennia of unbroken tradition. Plumes and Arrows: Inside New Guinea presents Colin Simpson's vivid, firsthand account of life among the island's peoples, chronicling the customs, ceremonies, and extraordinary landscapes of one of the world's last great frontiers. A celebrated Australian journalist and travel writer, Simpson brings his trademark eye for detail and humanity to bear on a society standing at the crossroads between ancient ways and the encroaching modern world, illuminating the daily lives, beliefs, and rituals of New Guinea's diverse communities with rare intimacy and authority. Simpson's prose is both journalistic in its precision and lyrical in its warmth, drawing the reader deep into a world of ceremonial plumes and tribal arrows, of rainforest villages and highland valleys seldom seen by outsiders. Compiled as a selection from his acclaimed earlier volumes on New Guinea — including Adam with Arrows and Adam in Plumes — and illustrated with photographs, maps, and decorative drawings, this edition stands as a definitive portrait of a land in transition. For anyone captivated by the enduring mysteries of the Pacific, the final pages will leave an irresistible question lingering: how much of this world still remains?
Author: Colin Simpson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Travel & exploration
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Few lands have captured the imagination of the outside world quite like New Guinea — a vast, emerald island shrouded in mist, mystery, and millennia of unbroken tradition. Plumes and Arrows: Inside New Guinea presents Colin Simpson's vivid, firsthand account of life among the island's peoples, chronicling the customs, ceremonies, and extraordinary landscapes of one of the world's last great frontiers. A celebrated Australian journalist and travel writer, Simpson brings his trademark eye for detail and humanity to bear on a society standing at the crossroads between ancient ways and the encroaching modern world, illuminating the daily lives, beliefs, and rituals of New Guinea's diverse communities with rare intimacy and authority. Simpson's prose is both journalistic in its precision and lyrical in its warmth, drawing the reader deep into a world of ceremonial plumes and tribal arrows, of rainforest villages and highland valleys seldom seen by outsiders. Compiled as a selection from his acclaimed earlier volumes on New Guinea — including Adam with Arrows and Adam in Plumes — and illustrated with photographs, maps, and decorative drawings, this edition stands as a definitive portrait of a land in transition. For anyone captivated by the enduring mysteries of the Pacific, the final pages will leave an irresistible question lingering: how much of this world still remains?