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 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 The Western Pacific and New Guine written by Hugh Hastings Romilly and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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 Sarawak Its Inhabitants and Productions Being Notes During a Residence in that Country with H H the Rajah Brooke written by Hugh Low and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notebooks from New Guinea written by Vojtech Novotny and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. Vojtech Novotny is a highly respected Czech scientist. His widely cited work, of profound importance to ecology and evolution, is not done, like much modern science, in a lab full of gleaming apparatus. Instead, he chose as his 'laboratory' the remotest parts of Papua New Guinea, where he has established a research station. Supported by a team of Papuans whom he has trained up so that they can combine their wide and intimate knowledge of the plants and animals of their tropical forest with the knowledge of modern science, Novotny studies the ecological interactions of butterflies and plants. Clearly this is no ordinary scientist. Combined with his intrepid courage (PNG is one of the most dangerous places on Earth, with a very high homicide rate), he is a shrewd observer of human nature. In the richly varied notes and reflections of this very individual volume are not only descriptions of natural history and scientific research in the rainforest, but accounts of the local peoples and their culture, the challenges of working across very different cultures, and amusing portraits of the antics of Western tourists, separated by a few 'intermezzi' - episodes when the author fought bouts of malaria. Novotny is that rare combination of excellent scientist and superb storyteller. The faithful translations by David Short bring these notes and reflections on science, nature, and human beings to a wide audience, without any loss to their richness, warmth, humility, and wisdom. The volume is illustrated with beautiful drawings by a self-taught Papuan artist, Benson Avea Bego, who lives in a remote village.
Download or read book Summary and conclusion written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anthropological Results of the Dutch Scientific Central New Guinea Expedition Ac 1920 written by Hendricus Johannes Tobias Bijlmer and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Natural History of Man written by Alfred Cort Haddon and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 876 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 The Golden Bough written by Sir James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Works of J G Frazer written by James George Frazer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Golden Bough Bibliography and general index 3d ed rev and enlarged 1918 written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Bough Bibliography and general index 3d ed rev and enl 1915 written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
