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In the 1920's and 1930's there were adventures to be lived and fortunes to be made by strong young men in the outback of Australia and the gold fields of New Guinea. This is the diary of five years spent in hot pursuit-not of honor and glory, but of excitement and riches-by one such advent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leahy, Michael J., 1901-1979
Otros Autores: Jones, Douglas E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1991.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Leahy, Michael J., > 1901-1979.
Leahy, Michael J. > (1901-1979)
Ethnology > Papua New Guinea.
First contact (Anthropology) > Papua New Guinea.
Ethnologie > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Premiers contacts (Anthropologie) > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnology.
First contact (Anthropology)
Manners and customs.
Travel.
Papoea's.
Expedities.
Goud.
Papua New Guinea > Description and travel.
Papua New Guinea > Social life and customs.
Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Descriptions et voyages.
Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Mœurs et coutumes.
Papua New Guinea.
Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Moeurs et coutumes.
Ethnology
Papua New Guinea
Autobiographies.
Reisbeschrijvingen (vorm)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In the 1920's and 1930's there were adventures to be lived and fortunes to be made by strong young men in the outback of Australia and the gold fields of New Guinea. This is the diary of five years spent in hot pursuit-not of honor and glory, but of excitement and riches-by one such adventurer, Michael ""Mick"" Leahy, his brothers Jim and Pat, and friends Mick Dwyer and Jim Taylor. Leahy and his associates explored the unknown interior of New Guinea, seeking gold and making contact for the first time with the aborigines of the interior mountains and valleys. White man
Notas:Includes index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:0585116555
9780585116556
9780817383152
0817383158

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