Papua New Guinea

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The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific
James Campbell Crown Crown
Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world’s largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep...
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Bronislaw Malinowski Waveland Press Waveland Press
The founding document of economic anthropology! Bronislaw Malinowski, one of the all-time great anthropologists of the world, had a talent for bringing together in single comprehension the warm reality of human living with the cool abstractions...
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Grand Valley Dani: Peaceful Warriors (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
Karl G. Heider Wadsworth Publishing Wadsworth Publishing
This case study examines an isolated tribe in Indonesia, West New Guinea, when tribe members were still using stone axes, bows, arrows and spears, up to more present times spanning 34 years (1961-1995). The author's long engagement with the Dani...
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Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Conduct and Communication)
Steven Feld University of Pennsylvania Press University of Pennsylvania Press
Now in its second edition, Sound and Sentiment is an ethnographic study of sound as a cultural system--that is, a system of symbols--among the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea. It shows how an analysis of modes and codes of sound communication...
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A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua
Peter Brune Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin
The story of the five battles that changed Australia forever, this compelling narrative incorporates hundreds of interviews with the soldiers who fought at Kokoda, Milne Bay, Gona, Buna, and Sanananda in 1942 and 1943. Revealed are the very real...
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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 8: New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944-August 1944 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II)
Samuel Eliot Morison University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press
This installment of Samuel Eliot Morison's insider history of the U.S. Navy covers five of the most eventful months of the Pacific war, March through July 1944. Awash with spectacular rescues of downed airmen, bold beach landings, and brilliant...
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Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul - Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II
Bruce Gamble Zenith Press Zenith Press
January 23, 1942, New Britain. It was 2:30 a.m., the darkest hour of the day and, for the defenders of this Southwest Pacific island, soon to be the war's darkest hour. Fifteen hundred men and six nurses, Lark Force, had been deployed to New...
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MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign (Modern War Studies)
Stephen, R. Taaffe University Press Of Kansas University Press Of Kansas
When General Douglas MacArthur led Allied troops into the jungles of New Guinea in World War II, he was already looking ahead. By successfully leapfrogging Japanese forces on that island, he placed his armies in a position to fulfill his personal...
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New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific
Michael Gunn, Phillipe Feltier 5 Continents Editions 5 Continents Editions
Despite the incredible artistry and skill evident in the prolific output of New Ireland artists of the late 19th century, their work is still largely unknown. This compelling exhibition catalogue intends to rectify that by presenting a broad...
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The Siege of Rabaul
H Sakaida Specialty Press Specialty Press
The Japanese bastion of Rabaul was their Gibraltar of the Southwest Pacific in WWII. But by 1944 Allied forces had won the battle for the Solomons and Rabaul was encircled and besieged. It was bypassed and never invaded. This is the incredible...
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