Author: CLUNE, F.,
Title: Somewhere in New Guinea. A companion to Prowling through Papua. First edn.
Description: Sydney-London, Angus and Robertson, 1951. small thick 8°. Orig. cloth, title in white type on spine, dustjacket. (xii), 356pp. Title-vignette, many fairly large to full-page black/white ills. after drawings by Syd Miller, bibliography, table of contents, illustrated endpapers. An excellent travelogue into the interior of the Territory of Papua and the former Mandated Territory of New Guinea, in search for gold. Incl. extensive notes on the local papuans, their daily life, habits & customs, meanst of subsistence, marriage, kinship, birth and death. Copy inscribed by author in ink and signed Frank clune, on recte of half title, with the seldomly present dustjacket. (dustjacket with rather heavy wear to extremities, especially to spine-ends, occasinal particles gone, skilfully restored with clearview acidfree tape where possible).

Keywords: papua new guinea mandate territory travel experiences gold mining history observations papuans anthropology history inscribed copy