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. It captures the excitement, romance -- and dread of the ill-fated patrol, which left 50 Papuans dead. WIth contributions by pionering ethnographers and anthropologists, including Edward Schiefelin and Robert Critenden (co-editors of the book), Bryant Allan, Stephen Frankel, Lisette Josephides, Marc Schiltz and Paul Sillitoe. Most have carried out fieldwork in Papua New Guinea since the 1970s.  (PNG09, $26.95)