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Argonauts of the Western Pacific
• Bronislaw Malinowski
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A landmark work in the field of economic anthropology, this book focuses on the exchange system of the Trobriand Islands. It also includes well considered ruminations on social organization, folklore, magic and ways of life.
(PNG07, $21.95)
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Beyond Fear, A Harrowing Journey Across New Guinea
• Joel P. Kramer
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A vivid account of a 102-day, 1,700-mile traverse of New Guinea by foot and kayak.
(PNG16, $24.95)
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The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer, Close Encounters with Strangers
• Eric Hansen
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A hilarious account of Hansen's offbeat experiences and encounters around the world over the past 25 years. Hansen is a favorite travel writer with a welcome interest in natural history, oddball characters and tales.
(TVL38, $14.95)
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Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
• Jared Diamond
• HISTORY
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Diamond tackles nothing less than the history and fate of civilization in this compelling book in which he offers case studies, present and past, of societies that work and societies that do not, devoting 100 carefully reasoned pages, for example, to the fate of the Norse settlements in Greenland (climatic change, Inuit) and another big section on Easter Island (deforestation, hubris).
(GEN324, $18.00)
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Ethnographic Presents, Pioneering Anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
• Terence Hays
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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In this richly detailed book, seven pioneering anthropologists tell of their field work in the highlands region of Papua New Guinea, a world largely unseen by westerners as late as 1950.
(NGA15, $55.00)
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The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead, A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research
• Derek Freeman
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Freeman continues the de-construction of Margaret Mead in this painstaking follow-up to his controversial biography of the anthropological icon.
(PAC103, $17.00)
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific
• H. Douglas Pratt
• FIELD GUIDE
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The landmark field guide with chapters on the islands and habitats, superb color plates by Pratt and a checklist of birds by island group.
(HWI32, $45.00)
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Flowers of the Pacific Island Seashore
• W. Arthur Whistler
• FIELD GUIDE
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A photographic field guide to 120 species of trees, shrubs and flowers of the tropical Pacific.
(PAC20, $19.00)
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Footprint Diving the World, A Guide to the World's Coral Seas
• Beth Tierney
• Shaun Tierney
• GUIDEBOOK
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An inviting, beautifully illustrated guide, covering 220 dive sites in 19 countries with chapters on Australia and the Pacific, Mexico and Honduras, Egypt, East Africa and the Maldives, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Micronesia. Featuring the diving couple's favorite destinations, the book includes a planning guide, practical tips and listing of dive centers, hotels, restaurants and live-aboards.
(OCE102, $29.95)
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The Future Eaters, An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
• Tim F. Flannery
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An engaging ecological history of Australasia, focusing on human impact on local environments and animal populations in the recent geologic past.
(AUS48, $16.00)
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The Happy Isles of Oceania, Paddling the Pacific
• Paul Theroux
• EXPLORATION
• FAVORITE
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Here's Theroux at his wickedly funny and open-minded best. The peripatetic author flies off to Australia and New Zealand with a kayak and ends up exploring much of Melanesia and Polynesia, including Tonga, Fiji and the Marquesas.
(PAC03, $15.95)
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In the Ring of Fire, A Pacific Basin Journey
• James Houston
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A lyrical narrative of the author's journeys through Japan, Indonesia, Micronesia, Hawaii and California.
(PAC45, $14.95)
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Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Field Guide
• Gerald Allen
• Roger Steene
• FIELD GUIDE
• OUT OF PRINT
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This comprehensive identification guide to coral reef fishes and invertebrates from Hawaii to the Red Sea features 1,800 color photographs.
(DIV48, $40.00)
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Like People You See in A Dream, First Contact in Six Papuan Societies
• Edward Schieffelin
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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This book collects stories told by the people of the highlands of New Guinea about early European visitors, and especially the Strickland-Purari patrol of 1935 which encountered six "undiscovered" tribes.
(PNG09, $26.95)
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Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918
• Michael Young
• EXPLORATION
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An excellent collection of 200 previously unpublished photographs of the Trobriand Islanders. Organized thematically, Young includes extensive quotes from Malinowski's books and diaries.
(PNG12, $50.00)
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Michael Rockefeller: New Guinea Photographs, 1961
• Kevin Bubriski
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This companion book to an exhibition at the Peabody features 75 striking duotone images of the culture and community of the highland Dani, selected from the work of Michael Rockefeller, who disappeared in the Asmat in 1961.
(PNG23, $29.95)
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Modern Papua New Guinea
• Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A collection of review articles.
(PNG19, $25.00)
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On the Road of the Winds
• Patrick Vinton Kirch
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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An excellent scholarly review of the prehistory and archaeology of Pacific civilizations before European contact.
(PAC101, $35.95)
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Pass the Butterworms, Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered
• Tim Cahill
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A collection of enertatining travel essays.
(WLD01, $13.00)
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Patterns of Culture
• Ruth Benedict
• Margaret Mead
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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This pioneering book compares and contrasts three native cultures.
(PNG10, $15.00)
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Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
• Margaret Mead
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A classic, still controversial book originally published in 1935. Mead looks at development, and especially the roles of men and women, in three societies in New Guinea. She conducted field work along the Sepik River from 1931-1933.
(NGA12, $15.00)
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Stinging Trees and Wait-A-Whiles: Confessions of a Rainforest Biologist
• William Laurance
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A scientist's memoir from the 1980s at Millaa Millaa in the tropics of Queensland, detailing the rigors of field research and the joys of discovery.
(AUS90, $25.00)
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