PNG
Author : Jackson Rannells
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
Birds of New Guinea
Author : Thane K. Pratt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 20,94 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0691095639
Book Description
Previous edition by Bruce M. Beehler, Thane K. Pratt, and Dale A. Zimmerman.
New Guinea
Author : Bruce M. Beehler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 069118030X
Book Description
Combining a wealth of information, a descriptive and story-filled narrative, and more than 200 stunning color photographs, the book unlocks New Guinea's remarkable secrets like never before
Four Corners
Author : Kira Salak
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2013-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781459667129
Book Description
Following the route taken by British explorer Ivan Champion in 1927, and amid breathtaking landscapes and wildlife, Salak traveled across this remote Pacific island - often called the last frontier of adventure travel - by dugout canoe and on foot. Along the way, she stayed in a village where cannibals m was still practiced behind the backs of the missionaries, met the leader of the OPM - the separatist guerrilla movement opposing the Indonesian occupation of Western New Guinea - and undertook an epic trek through the jungle. The New York Times said ''Kira Salak is tough, a real - life Lara Croft.'' And Edward Marriott, proclaimed Four Corners to be ''A travel book that transcends the genre?It is, like all the best travel narratives, a resonant interior journey, and offers wisdom for our times.''
Birds of New Guinea
Author : Philip Andrew Gregory
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Birds
ISBN : 9788494189272
Book Description
Islands in the Clouds
Author : Isabella Tree
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
This is the fascinating account of Tree's journeys in the remote Highlands of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya--one of the most dangerous regions on Earth. The author travels with a PNG Highlander who introduces her to his complex, traditional world, a world that is changing rapidly as it encounters new ideas, modern technologies, and the economic and political challenges of the 20the century.
The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area
Author : Bill Palmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110295253
Book Description
The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of all major regions of the world. The island of New Guinea and its offshore islands is arguably the most diverse and least documented linguistic hotspot in the world - home to over 1300 languages, almost one fifth of all living languages, in more than 40 separate families, along with numerous isolates. Traditionally one of the least understood linguistic regions, ongoing research allows for the first time a comprehensive guide. Given the vastness of the region and limited previous overviews, this volume focuses on an account of the families and major languages of each area within the region, including brief grammatical descriptions of many of the languages. The volume also includes a typological overview of Papuan languages, and a chapter on Austronesian-Papuan contact. It will make accessible current knowledge on this complex region, and will be the standard reference on the region. It is aimed at typologists, endangered language specialists, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and all those interested in linguistic diversity and understanding this least known linguistic region.
Nova Guinea
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Natural history
ISBN :
Book Description
Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea
Author : J.L. Gressit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400986327
Book Description
J. L. Gressitt New Guinea is a fantastic island, unique and fascinating. It is an area of incredible variety of geomorphology, biota, peoples, languages, history, tradi tions and cultures. Diversity is its prime characteristic, whatever the subject of interest. To a biogeographer it is tantalizing, as well as confusing or frustrating when trying to determine the history of its biota. To an ecologist, and to all biologists, it is a happy hunting ground of endless surprises and unanswered questions. To a conservationist it is like a dream come true, a "flash-back" of a few centuries, as well as a challenge for the future. New Guinea is so special that it is hard to compare it with other islands or tropical areas. It is something apart, with its very complicated history (chapters I: 2-4, II: 1-4, III: I, VI: I, 2). It is partly old but to a great extent very young, yet extremely rich and complex. It has biota of different sources - to such a degree that it is still disputed in this volume as to what Realm it belongs to: the Paleotropical or Notogaean (Australian); or what Region: Oriental, "Oceanic," Papuan or Australian. The terms Papuasian, Indo-Australian and Australasian also have been applied to the area.
The Papuan Languages of New Guinea
Author : William A. Foley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 1986-11-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521286213
Book Description
This introduction to the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Papuan languages of New Guinea provide an accessible account of one of the richest and most diverse linguistic situations in the world. The Papuan languages number over 700 (or 20 per cent of the world's total) in more than sixty language families. Less than a quarter of the individual languages have yet been adequately documented, and in this sense William Foley's book might be considered premature. However, in the search for language universals and generalisations in linguistic typology, it would be foolhardy to neglect the information that is available. In this respect alone, the present volume, systematically organised on mainly typology principles, is particularly timely and useful. In addition, the processes of linguistic diffusion are present in New Guinea to an extent probably paralleled elsewhere on the globe. The Papuan Languages of New Guinea will be of interest not only to general and comparative linguists and to typologists, but also to sociolinguists and anthropologists for the information it provides on the social dynamics of language content.
