New Guinea Books for Sale

1.

Growing Up In New Guinea
Magaret Mead

A sociologist account of the life, relationships, and ideals of a small

Polynesian society, with a discussion of their bearings on Western theories of education and upbringing.

Book Description: Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middx UK, 1954. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. A sociologist's account of the life, relationships, and ideals of a small Polynesian society, with a discussion of their bearings on Western theories of education and upbringing. The book was first published in 1930 when it was recognized as an original and important contribution to the theory of education. With the author's earlier 'Coming of Age in Samoa', it comments critically and provocatively on a number of vital problems of modern life

Price $7 Postage within Australia $10

2.

Male Cults and Secret Initiations in Melanesia

M.R.Allen

Book Description: Melbourne University Press,1967. First Edition., 1967. 8vo.pp.x+140,bibliography ,index Illustrated. Good copy The author puts forward a theory on anthropological and partly on psycho-analytic theory for the variety of practices found in the initiation rites of Melanesia.

Price $20 Postage within Australia $10

3.

The Southwest Pacific to 1900

C.Hartley Grattan

Book Description: University of Michigan, 1963, 1963. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Hard Cover.

Price $10 Postage within Australia $10

4.

That They Might Live

Ellen Kettle

Book Description: First Edition; 368 pages, numerous b/w illustrations and maps, includes information on Rabaul nurses, index, original stiff illustrated wrapper, a good copy. Sydney, F.P. Leonard, 1979.

Price $20 Postage within Australia $10

5.

Voices from a Lost World

Jan Roberts

Book Description: Millennium Books, NSW, 1996. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good.

Price $18 Postage within Australia $10

6.

Blazing The Trail

Rev. Emmet McHardy

Book Description: T J Wade, 1935. Hardcover, Very Good/Fair. Clean internally and in excellent reading condition. No dust jacket.

Price $10 Postage within Australia $10

7.

Little Known of These Waters

STANDBY. (R.S. Porteous)

Short stories of small vessels during World War II which flew the American Flag but were manned by Australian civilians., 1945

Price $15 Postage within Australia $10

8.

The New Guinea Villager

C.D. Rowley

Book Description: 1967. Melbourne, Cheshire, (1967). Reprint. Dust cover poor Cond.

Price $10 Postage within Australia $10

9.

Adam in Plumes

Colin Simpson

Book Description: 1954, South Pacific, Angus and Robertson, 268 p., good + cloth no jacket.

Price $10 Postage within Australia $10

10.

New Guinea Problems & Prospects

Peter Hastings

Book Description: Cheshire Publishing, 1969. Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good.

Price $10 Postage within Australia $10

11.

Softly, Wild Drums: In New Guinea Today

Beth Dean and Victor Carell

Book Description: Ure Smith, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good.

Price $5 Postage within Australia $10

12.

Green Armour

Omar White

Book Description: First Edition Angus & Robertson Sydney 1945, 1945. Hard cover 246pp three maps. Spine Poor condition

Price $10 Postage within Australia $10

13.

Green Armour

Omar White

Book Description: Melbourne Penguin 1987., 1987. Australian War Classics. Presented by E.E. (Weary) Dunlop. 287pp. Soft covers. Very good. ISBN 0140147063

Price $15 Postage within Australia $10

14.

Papua – Beasts and Men

Andre Dupeyrat

Book Description: Macgibbon & Kee, London, United Kingdom, 1963. Hard Back. Book Condition: Good.

Price $20 Postage within Australia $10

15.

Taim Bilong Masta – The Australian Involvement with Papua New Guinea

Hank Nelson

Book Description: Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, 1982. Soft Cover Book Condition: Very Good

Price $18 Postage within Australia $10

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