Papua New Guinea

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Introduces the reader to Papua New Guinea, a rugged land of 10,000 colourful tribes. This book features a weird and wonderful bestiary, and also tells of the author whose culinary bent finds him dining on python, rat, bat, parrot and insect pupae.
Howard Beck is no ordinary travel writer. When visiting a country, he immerses himself totally in his experiences, taking his readers to new levels of awareness. In "Papua New Guinea: Tales from a Wild Island", the earthy narrative introduces the reader to a rugged land of 10,000 colourful tribes, a weird and wonderful bestiary and an adventurous author whose culinary bent finds him dining on python, rat, bat, parrot and insect pupae.Adventures in a land described as 'like every place you've never been' see Howard one moment standing on the country's highest mountains, the next exploring the mysterious world beneath the jungle in search of the planet's deepest cave.His travels with a 'tea-towel map', described with down to earth and often amusing clarity, will have the reader warming to tales of archery contests with wild tribesmen, the discovery of macabre burial sites, sorcery in the dead of night and of being invited to live with a tribe in the land of Laughing Death, where the deceased are exhumed and eaten as a mark of respect. Lavishly illustrated, this is a book to inspire adventurers and travellers alike, whether aspiring or of the armchair variety.
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Weight 0.000000
Author Howard Beck
Availability IP
Department Travel Writing
Format Hardback
ISBN 9780709084495
Pages 210
Published 01/02/2009
Publisher Robert Hale
Section Travel Writing: General
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