Author: RHYS, LL.
Title: Aligamè; Vriend der Papoea's. Het verhaal over de Jungle Pimpernel Dr. J. Victor de Bruyn onder de Bergpapoea's in Nieuw Guinea.Transl. fr. the orig. english edn. by D.L. Uyt den Bogaard.
Description: Amsterdam, Enum, [circa], 1955. Original cloth, title in gilt on front boards and spine, dustjacket. 240pp. frontispiece (portrait of J.V. de Bruyn.), ills. on 5 plates, some full-p. sketch-maps, end-paper maps, table of contents. Describes the life and times of a famous civil-servant J.V. de Bruijn (alias Jungle Pimpernel) and his work among the mountain-papuas of the dutch territory of New Guinea. Supplies a clear picture of jungle-life. Very good copy, WITH dustjacket. (some minor occasional wear to extremities of dustjacket).

Keywords: new guinea oceania irian jaya history jungle life papuans mountains civil administration history politics colonialism