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Some of the world's most advanced work on biodiversity is being carried out deep in the jungles of Papua New Guinea by a team including local tribes-people. Novotny's entertaining, engaging, and unique diaries reflect on the wisdom of the ancient culture, bringing to life the people and the sometimes tragi-comic interactions between it and the West

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Hugely entertaining and thought provoking in equal proportions. * E. Geoffrey Hancock, Glasgow Natural History Society *

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BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION: HOW I GOT TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA...AND WHAT CAME NEXT; ISLAND OF A THOUSAND TONGUES AND A WILD, WILD LANDSCAPE; OLD AND NEW CUSTOMS OF A TRIBAL SOCIETY; FOREIGNERS AND THEIR ODD IDEAS; HOW TO DO SCIENCE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA; IN CONCLUSION: TRAVEL REPORT

Notebooks from New Guinea

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      Publisher OUP Oxford
      Published 8 November 2011
      ISBN-13 9780199609642
      978-0199609642
      ISBN-10 0199609640
      Also in:
      Applied ecology Forests and woodland Popular science

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Some of the world's most advanced work on biodiversity is being carried out deep in the jungles of Papua New Guinea by a team including local tribes-people. Novotny's entertaining, engaging, and unique diaries reflect on the wisdom of the ancient culture, bringing to life the people and the sometimes tragi-comic interactions between it and the West

      Trade Review
      Hugely entertaining and thought provoking in equal proportions. * E. Geoffrey Hancock, Glasgow Natural History Society *

      Table of Contents
      BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION: HOW I GOT TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA...AND WHAT CAME NEXT; ISLAND OF A THOUSAND TONGUES AND A WILD, WILD LANDSCAPE; OLD AND NEW CUSTOMS OF A TRIBAL SOCIETY; FOREIGNERS AND THEIR ODD IDEAS; HOW TO DO SCIENCE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA; IN CONCLUSION: TRAVEL REPORT

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