Download or read book New Guinea and its Inhabitants Part I and II written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1879 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'New Guinea and its Inhabitants' is a general sketch of the island and the peculiar forms of life that inhabit it, and to discusses briefly some of the interesting problems connected with its indigenous races. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was inspired by the travelling naturalists of the day and decided to begin his exploration career collecting specimens in the Amazon rainforest. He explored the Rio Negra for four years, making notes on the peoples and languages he encountered as well as the geography, flora, and fauna. While travelling, Wallace refined his thoughts about evolution and in 1858 he outlined his theory of natural selection in an article he sent to Charles Darwin. Wallace made a huge contribution to the natural sciences and he will continue to be remembered as one of the key figures in the development of evolutionary theory.
Download or read book History of New Guinea and its People written by John W. Lindt and published by LM Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the History of New Guinea and its ihabitants. “Immediately north of Australia, and separated from it at Torres Straits by less than a hundred miles of sea, is the largest island on the globe — New Guinea, a country of surpassing interest, whether as regards its natural productions or its human inhabitants, but which remains to this day less known than any accessible portion of the earth's surface... It was discovered in 1511, even earlier than Australia; and from that time Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English vessels have continually passed along its coasts. Most of our early navigators -Forrest, Dampier, and Cook - visited New Guinea, and have given us some account of its inhabitants...”
Download or read book British New Guinea written by Sir William Macgregor and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 1897 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey to the heart of British New Guinea with this informative and engaging work by Sir William MacGregor. Learn about the natural beauty of the land, the customs and cultures of its people, and the history of British colonization and administration. MacGregor's vivid account is an essential read for anyone interested in the history and geography of this fascinating region. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Notes on New Guinea and Its Inhabitants written by William George Lawes and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Guinea and Its Inhabitants written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British New Guinea and Its Inhabitants written by E. T. Howell and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World Until Yesterday written by Jared Diamond and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? “As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.
Download or read book Conservation Is Our Government Now written by Paige West and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the site of a biodiversity conservation project implemented between 1994 and 1999. She describes the interactions between those who ran the program—mostly ngo workers—and the Gimi people who live in the forests surrounding Crater Mountain. West shows that throughout the project there was a profound disconnect between the goals of the two groups. The ngo workers thought that they would encourage conservation and cultivate development by teaching Gimi to value biodiversity as an economic resource. The villagers expected that in exchange for the land, labor, food, and friendship they offered the conservation workers, they would receive benefits, such as medicine and technology. In the end, the divergent nature of each group’s expectations led to disappointment for both. West reveals how every aspect of the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area—including ideas of space, place, environment, and society—was socially produced, created by changing configurations of ideas, actions, and material relations not only in Papua New Guinea but also in other locations around the world. Complicating many of the assumptions about nature, culture, and development underlying contemporary conservation efforts, Conservation Is Our Government Now demonstrates the unique capacity of ethnography to illuminate the relationship between the global and the local, between transnational processes and individual lives.
Download or read book The New Guinea Diaries 1871 1883 written by N N Miklouho-Maclay and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering ecologist and humanist N. N. Miklouho-Maclay lived at a time of great colonial and industrial expansion; he was a pupil of the German philosopher Ernst Haeckel. To prove that the people of all races are equally human, Maclay went to the island of New Guinea (1870), the first white man to do so and stayed years with native Papuans while the rest of the world presumed he had been eaten. His diaries are testimony to his time in New Guinea where he observed a native culture untouched by the outside world. Maclay describes his first meeting with the natives; "A few Papuans moved closer to me. Suddenly two arrows flashed in rapid succession close by me... As the first arrow passed me by, the eyes of many natives were fixed upon me, trying to read the impressions in my face; except for fatigue and curiosity, registered I no emotion." He was instead befriended by the Papuans; they called him Tamo Russ, believing that he had descended from the moon. The diaries were originally edited with the help of Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The books sold millions of copies in Eastern Europe. Maclay tried hard to save Papuans and their traditional culture and died disillusioned at the age of 42. He tried to revise Darwin's theory of the selection of the species and challenged the idea that certain races of people are born genetically superior. The New Guinea Diaries provide an authentic portrait of a timeless, sustainable and egalitarian tribal society before the Europeans moved into the area. The book is illustrated with original drawings made by Maclay during his New Guinean expedition.
Download or read book Department of State Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Earth and its Inhabitants The Universal Geography Australasia written by Elisée Reclus and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-23 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book New Guinea and Polynesia written by John Moresby and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Balambangan etc 2 Ed written by Thomas Forrest and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Balambangan written by Thomas Forrest and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1779 account of the archipelago between Malaysia and New Guinea, its inhabitants, and colonial rivalries over the spice trade.
Download or read book The Contemporary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea written by Robert Wood Williamson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson is about Williamson's experience of the native tribes living in New Guinea. Contents: "CHAPTER I Introductory CHAPTER II Physique and Character CHAPTER III Dress and Ornament CHAPTER IV Daily Life and Matters Connected with It CHAPTER V Community, Clan, and Village Systems and Chieftainship CHAPTER VI Villages, Emone, Houses and Modes of Inter-Village Communication CHAPTER VII Government, Property and Inheritance CHAPTER VIII The Big Feast."
Download or read book The Past and Future People written by Romola McSwain and published by Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
