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Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-Day in Dutch New Guinea

by Alexander Frederick Richmond Wollaston

2019-03-12 19:31:51

The Committee who organised the late expedition to Dutch New Guinea, paid me the high compliment of inviting me to write an account of our doings in that country. The fact that it is, in a sense, the official account of the expedition has precluded m ... Read more
The Committee who organised the late expedition to Dutch New Guinea, paid me the high compliment of inviting me to write an account of our doings in that country. The fact that it is, in a sense, the official account of the expedition has precluded me—greatly to the advantage of the reader—from offering my own views on the things that we saw and on things in general. The country that we visited was quite unknown to Europeans, and the native races with whom we came in contact were living in so primitive a state that the second title of this book is literally true. The pygmies are indeed one of the most primitive peoples now in existence. Less

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File size3415.387 KB
Print pages496
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2015-08-22
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781296621803,
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Alexander Frederick Richmond Wollaston
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Alexander Frederick Richmond "Sandy" Wollaston (22 May 1875, Clifton, Gloucestershire[1] – 3 June 1930, Cambridge[2]) was an English medical doctor, ornithologist, botanist, climber and explorer. ...

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