Annotation Examines how notions of the body's humors and substances structure aspects of social interactions and define an individual's personal placement within the cosmos. Annotation Explores and elaborates a theme of fundamental significance in the societies of New Guinea--h…
-- War at the End of the World From the Hardcover edition.
A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II--General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea. One American soldier called it "a green hell on earth…
This book reviews the natural history and biology of tree-kangaroos from the time of their first discovery by Europeans in the jungles of West Papua in 1826 right up to the present day, covering the latest research in Australia and New Guinea. It combines information from a numb…
