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Author Klemensen, Arvid

Title Strange Island : the Noona Dan in the South Seas
Edition British edition
Published [London] : Souvenir Press, [1965]
Souvenir P, 1965

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 MELB SPC FLANNERY  995.3 Kle/Sit  UNAVAILABLE
Description 189 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Polynesia ahead -- From Svendborgsund to the South Seas -- Camp Hornbill -- Among the mountain tribes of Palawan -- The coral island in the Sulu Sea -- On to Tawitawi -- Mussau, island of cannibals -- Tree-trunk into canoe -- The hunt for tropical sea birds -- Cannibal children on the school bench -- With a snake on board -- I become "sak-sak manufacturer" in Mussau -- A life on volcanoes -- Crocodile hunt in New Britain -- The Bainings -- The religious ideas of the Bainings -- They dance for the gods of fertility
Notes Originally published as'Med Noona Dan 1 Sydhavet. Grafisk Forlag,1963
Translation of: Med Noona Dan 1 Sydhavet
SUBJECT Noona Dan Expedition (1961-1962) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008128185
Subject Polynesians.
Voyages and travels.
Melanesians.
Baining (Papua New Guinean people)
Voyages and travels -- 20th century.
SUBJECT Noona Dan
Philippines -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100776
New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091250 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278
Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014433 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278
LC no. 66003853