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Author Leahy, Jeanette

Title Explorations into Highland New Guinea, 1930-1935
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages)
Contents Contents; Foreward by Jane C. Goodale; Editor's Preface; Introduction; The Year 1930; The Year 1931; The Year 1932; The Year 1933; The Year 1934; The Year 1935; Conclusions; Editor's Afterword; Index
Summary In the 1920s and 1930s 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 pursuitnot of honor and glory, but of excitement and richesby 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 was unknown to these
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Subject Leahy, Michael J., 1901-1979.
SUBJECT Leahy, Michael J., 1901-1979 fast
Subject First contact (Anthropology) -- Papua New Guinea
Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea.
Ethnology
First contact (Anthropology)
Manners and customs
Travel
SUBJECT Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs
Papua New Guinea -- Description and travel
Subject Papua New Guinea
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817383152
0817383158