 | The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939 (Miegunyah Press) by Bill Gammage
Buy used from: $120.00 My favorite book on PNG - sensitive, readable, wonderful. But VERY VERY detailed. Novices may drown in detail.
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 | Papua New Guinea & Solomon Islands (Lonely Planet) by Andrew Burke
Buy used from: $0.26 Definitive (and only) guide book to PNG.
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 | Papua New Guinea: People politics and history since 1975 by Sean Dorney
Buy used from: $38.50 If you read only one book on PNG, read this one. Friendly, complete, insightful, easy to read.
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| First Contact by Bob Connolly
Buy used from: $7.55 Classic account of Australian discovery of the highlands
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| Visitants: A novel by Randolph Stow
Buy used from: $0.31 My favorite PNG novel. Powerful and evocative -- like Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" but with more Motu.
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 | The Cassowary's Revenge: The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) by Donald Tuzin
Buy new: $28.00 / Used from: $5.99 An anthropologist confronts how he and his village in the Sepik have changed when he reurns after a decade.
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 | Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski
Buy new: $17.67 / Used from: $4.00 The classic account of the kula in Milne Bay.
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 | Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts: Representing the Chambri in the World System by Deborah B. Gewertz
Buy new: $36.99 / Used from: $0.01 A fascinating account of how life is lived in the Sepik and how it is protrayed to tourists
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| Day that I have loved: Percy Chatterton's Papua by Percy Chatterton
Buy used from: $25.00 A charming account of early life in Papua by a well-known and much-loved missionary.
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| A thousand coloured dreams by Josephine Abaijah
Buy used from: $75.99 The interestingly conflicted biography of PNG's first major female politician
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| The sorrow of the lonely and the burning of the dancers by Edward L Schieffelin
Buy used from: $67.66 An highly readable ethnography - a god example of the bread-and-buter writing that anthropologists do.
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 | Bosavi: Rainforest Music From Papua New Guinea by Various Artists
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $7.92 You've read the book, now listen to the soundtrack! Music from the people from 'Sorrow of the Lonely'. Hours of great music at a great price.
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 | Birds of New Guinea by Bruce M. Beehler
Buy used from: $275.00 The definitive guide to birds in PNG
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 | Mammals of New Guinea by Tim F. Flannery
Buy used from: $119.99 Wonderful pictures of all of PNG's cool mammals.
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